NATURE V. UNIVERSITY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13875, 8 October 1908, Page 8

NATURE V. UNIVERSITY.

Sir, —la "Notes and Comments' • to* ' . touch upon university training, andC'fititog-; " that the discovery: of • new knowledge, J'/ . the most important activity which a university can foster," etc. . The ; universe man is no discoverer, in a 'general sense.: tie ; /5 may be skilled in the knowledge of the'Pa^, arts and sciences, and plays a successful pa» : ; r[;. in imparting to others this _ eecond-MJM knowledge, but. the future is veiled iß;v mystery, in which he plays no part, becajis© f his university career has dulled onjnnaUtJV and his natural' instinct has .been dwarfed by the very means that he held to' be W. . stepping-stones", to higher education. j _ discovery of new knowledge comes, and Wcome, from outside the universities, chiefly by men , who have never entered ■ . therein; men whose brains have been . tarnished by our civilised educational JjfP£| : | cess, and whose mental energies have as' untrammeled as ' the - winds '' that ) w®.., hither and thither. Nature's agents areta* germ life in whom, and through w&OTi ;,. , singly and in groups, she works her My ßlo ' ; ; bus wonders in her different series-of op© | tions. Estrangement from nature meana -fc j| gradual deterioration of the' human - I Those of our master minds who bave :■ [I in the past—greater in the past toa>J I®V : sent—have, leaned upon, and sought "°rj 1 Nature's school for mental guidance ■» || support, and she failed them not;. .» < these self-mado . men the world is jndeoi ■ for its most remarkable discoveries. ' ■ . Emily Moot- . ' . — — life: