New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-04

.L... ;.;,asn As a means of education fitted
far tho rroses of the times, the medieval phiioso
nb,, hos never been rivalled. 1t contained, TO
rso tho words Of Mr. Laurie, quoted by NJ.
Comnavrc. "a great deal of severe discipline OF
,ho ,romorv and the intellect" and that was Jnse
what the Northern races slowly emerging iron.
rr;movcI sayagcry needed. What they requlred
,os not 81 much material for mental work as
trained minds 10 work with.
7, may have been supposed in behalf OIL te
r,,n.oh that scholasticsm and the university
could hc face instruments in it's hands. B'it
ho,L nroyed doubls-cdgcd weapons. Apelard
o,yn beretical Independence his success in e-ta'-
fishing the supremacy Of reason was sul'cieh'
hint of what was TO come. Doup'lcss' '"!'
n Cmuayre " the new establishments, t'anh'
IN the mmunitics and privileges whose pose'ssio"
,.,s ,.surcd 70 them by the Fopcs themselves
we're more than once destined 10 NC .'''
% tho panacv. But who could then divine, IN
the obscure beginnings, the ambitions OIL .'''
r,urcp Doubtless the universities by the intel
,ootual travail they were TO excite bore the eerhh
If the approaching liberty of thought, the Kei.
crmation and free philosophy. But who couiu
,hor suspect that the human mind, encouraged
IN ,s efforts by the Church, would one day turn
AGAINST the Church that reason would not always
,o in accord with faith, that science couiu ne
somcthiug other than the confirmation oil the
traditional bclicfs?'
While the whole system Of examinations ana
deorccs and divisions of faculties in modern uni
vorsities was the invention Of the mcdiaeval
ncriod there wcre some peculiarrics OF the
GREAT mc,liacval schools which can not DO mi
rated. The almost anarchic liberty and disorutr
Of those DAYS would destroy a modern scnooi'
They cannot he initiated. On the other hand' t"s
freedom Of movement in the case OF the mcdiac'a
student il 10 bc envicd. Sngly, or III grea'
compancs be migrated from one university 10
another. and the schools Of all Europe WIRE
bound together with tie which VI. Cohlp"s'c
Ikens 70 the federal bond OF the United States.
Thus the Republic Of Letters became lhi'''
Europe above the warning of princes ana nier-
ccnary troops. Changes that would de''toS
modern university occurred instantahco"siy
Five thousand students and professors "eh'
from oxford to tamOri Ice on one o'ca'i"".
and the University OF PaIs thfea'e"e'
| mara than once 20 remove in body 10
| an. thcr CITY Five thousand men, repre-
.cntng every part Of Western Europe, lol-
! lowed Arclarl into the wilderness. IL Is sa"
that in the Hustle controversy 1000 men apah'
doned the University Of Prague in on" day anu
! havina been followed hy 5000 others. SGT up
| a university Of their own AT IHipsIc IL l. thi'
! restless turbulent society. full Of new though'S
boiling with enthusiasm for learning oil every
| kind that was within It's reach. which IL some
times called by writers who get their FACTS al
second hand stagnant and dormant. Bt wh'
!. really to be seen by those who take inc
trouble TO study j. the same Europe that no"
exists engaged in solving the same problems
but under other conditions and by methods whicI
may hc criticised in part. but can I've CONDEMNED
wholesale only by ignorance