The State and Higher Education, an Address Before the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Thus we find that none of the old universities, except when under the control of the government, and sometimes not even then, have been willing to modify their curricula in compli ance with the demands and spirit of the age. If they have done it, as more lately at Oxford university, it is only after the force of public sentiment has been able to batter down the walls of prejudice and conceit with which they have been surrounded. During this whole conflict throughout Europe the church, in its various forms, but particularly the Roman church, instead of being, the champion and refuge of free thought and free knowledge, has been the most powerful obstacle to its progress, and has persistently opposed every movement to introduce the means for disseminating useful knowledge among the people. The heat of the conflict is passed. The tide has set in the right direction. The old universities perceive the triumph of modern science. Euro pean governments are unanimously striving for the establish ment of modern schools of science on the broadest founda tions, and equipping them with the fullest appliances.

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