Nevertheless, I must be content to-day with our old word. We cannot say 'spiriture' nor 'animature,' instead of literature; but you must not be content with the vulgar interpretation of the word. Remember always that you come to this University,--or, at least, your fathers came,--not to learn how to say things, but how to think them. 5. "How to think them! but that is only the art of logic," you perhaps would answer. No, again, not at all: logic is a method, not a power; and we have defined literature to be the modification of ideal things by ideal power, not by mechanical method. And you come to the University to get that power, or develop it; not to be taught the mere method of using it. I say you come to the University for this; and perhaps some of you are much surprised to hear it! You did not know that you came to the University for any such purpose. Nay, perhaps you did not know that you had come to a University at all? You do not at this instant, some of you, I am well assured, know what a University means. Does it mean, for instance--can you answer me in a moment, whether it means--a place where everybody comes to learn something; or a place where somebody comes to learn everything? It means--or you are trying to make it mean--practically and at present, the first; but it means theoretically, and always, the last; a place where only certain persons come, to learn _everything_; that is to say, where those who wish to be able to think, come to learn to think: not to think of mathematics only, nor of morals, nor of surgery, nor chemistry, but of everything, rightly.