ABSTRACT
The two great points to be gained in intellectual culture are the discipline and the furniture of the mind, expanding its powers and storing it with knowledge. When certain mental endowments receive a much higher culture than others, there is a distortion in the intellectual character. In laying the foundation of a thorough education, it is necessary that all the important mental faculties be brought into exercise. The groundwork of a thorough education must be broad, deep, and solid. For a partial or superficial education, the support may be of looser materials-and more hastily laid. There is no nation whose interests would be more deeply affected by a substitution of superficial for solid learning. The great object of a collegiate education, preparatory to the study of a profession, is to give that expansion and balance of the mental powers, those liberal and comprehensive views.
