ABSTRACT
Science is one of the most sublime pursuits and achievements of mankind: more sublime than the university itself, conceived as an educational institution. The teaching of the professions and the search for truth must be separated. To investigate is to discover a truth, or inversely, to demonstrate an error. To know means to assimilate a truth into one's consciousness, to possess a fact after it has been attained and secured. The organism is conceived as being endowed with a specific potentiality, whose realization constitutes the organism's proper life. The profession, which after culture is the most urgent concern, is entrusted largely to the kindness of Providence. The trend towards a university dominated by "inquiry" has been disastrous. It has led to the elimination of the prime concern: culture. It has deflected attention from the problem of how best to train future professionals for their professions.
