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Excerpt from Address: Delivered at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the National Association of State Universities, Held in Boston, October 8th-9th, 1909 Denominational institutions owe their existence and in the main their continued support to the enthusiasm, energy, and benevolence of religious sects by which with varying degrees of scholastic independence they are all in the last resort regulated and controlled. But the supreme object of the denomination does not coincide with the supreme object of the university, whose province is knowledge and whose method is the free, unfettered, and unbiased search after truth. The pursuit of this method, as the history of the progress of science and philosophy all too painfully demonstrates, has constantly brought the university into collision with the church whenever a new vista of truth was opened up or the narrow horizon of human knowledge pushed back a little into the realm of the unknown. As a consequence there has developed a clear recognition of the fact that the university cannot, without abandoning its own constitutive idea, be subject to any control whatever from the side of the church. Absolute independence is the supreme condition of intellectual activity. A denominational university, therefore, is, in a last analysis, a contradiction in terms. It could never flourish among a people like the French who push all premises to their logical conclusions and feel unhappy if the last obscure residuum of a complex conception is not dragged out of its hiding place and exhibited to the clear light of day. This is what makes government so difficult in France; for government is largely a matter of compromises. We Americans, on the other hand, succeed in government because among other things we have a genius for compromise. The same genius follows us - sometimes for good, often for evil - into other domains of life; and it undoubtedly accounts for the development amongst us of denominational universities, which early conditions in New England naturally called into existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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