ABSTRACT
The university consists, primarily and basically, of the higher education which the ordinary man should receive. It is necessary to make the ordinary man a good professional. This chapter compares profession and science. Science is one of the most sublime pursuits and achievements of mankind: more sublime than the university itself, conceived as an educational institution. For science is creation, and teaching aims only to convey what has been created, to digest it and to induce learners to digest it. Science is carried on upon so high a plane that it is necessarily an extremely delicate process. Whether people like it or not, science excludes the ordinary man. It involves a calling most infrequent, and remote from the ordinary run of the human species. The teaching of the professions and the search for truth must be separated. They must be clearly distinguished one from the other, both in the minds of the professors and in the minds of the students.
