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proud place, peopled with men of positive quality,
with heroes and (lemigoils standing around us, who
will not let us sleep. Then, they address the imag-
ination: o11ly poetry inspires poetry‘. They become
the organic culture of the time. (follege education
is the reading‘ of certain hooks which the connnon
sense of all scholars agrees will represent the sci-
ence already’ accumulatcil. If you know that,—
for instance. in gco11uc>tr_v, if you have read Euclid
and Laplace, — your opinion 1111s some value; if
you do 11ot know these, you are not entitled to give
any opinion on the subject. “Yhenever any skep-
tic or bigot claims to he heanl on the questions of
intellect and morals. we ask if he is familiar with
the books of Plato, where all his pert objections
have once for all been disposed of. If 11ot, he has
no right to our time. Let him go and find himself
answered there.

Meantime the colleges, whilst they provide us
with libraries, furnish no professor of hooks; and
I think no chair is so 11111011 wanted. In a library
we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear
friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter
in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they
know us, and have been waiting two, te11, or twenty
centuries for us, — some of them, -— and are eager
to give us a sign and imbosom themselves, it is the
law of their limbo that they must not speak until