thought and enterprise; and where can this lesson so well be learned as in a school whose standard of intellectual excellence shall be the highest? While we look, therefore, to the founding of a true university, we will begin, as the university of Paris began in the twelfth century, and as the present university of Louvain began fifty years ago, with a national school of philosophy and theology, which will form the central faculty of a complete educational organism. Around this, the other faculties will take their places, in due course of time; and so the beginning which we make will grow, until like the seed planted in the earth, it shall wear the bloomy crown of its own development. And though the event be less than our hope, though even failure be the outcome, is it not better to fail than not to attempt a worthy work which might be ours? Only they who do nothing derive comfort from the mistakes of others; and the saying that a blunder is worse than a crime is doubtless true for those who have no other measure of worth and success than the conventional standards of a superficial public opinion. We at least know-- "There lives a Judge To whose all-pondering mind a noble aim Faithfully kept is as a noble deed; In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed." THE END. End of Project Gutenberg's Means and Ends of Education, by J. L. Spalding