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the advantage which such an Institiition as the College at York would gain by being United with it . The expression of Hieronbntts is liable to objection , when be says , *• the objects of both , in reference to the ad miss it ) n of students ^ are so nearly alike , that the competition must continue to be strong
while they remain distinct . " The chief object of the College at York is to educate young men for the Christian ministry . The aim of the London University is , at least , much more general . Those who know that Institution , mtfst perceive that the professions of law aud medicine
are most likely to profit by the advantages which it at present has to offer . There can , therefore , be no just competition between them , since no young man , with the prospect of entering the Christian ministry , or even of obtaining a complete course of general education , Would content himself with the
advantages offered by the London University . But the question which Hieronimus , no doubt , means to suggest is , whether the students for the ministry at York would not have additional advantages by the removal of that Institution to London ? And it may very naturally be thought that , could that Institution be transplanted entire into the neighbourhood of the London University , it would gain much , while it would lose nothing . Even in that case it is to be remembered
that the chief advantage which would accrue to the young men educating for the ministry , would be that of a wider sphere of intellectual competition . Their more extended intercourse with learned and scientific men , and with young men engaged in the pursuits of knowledge , would perhaps liberalize their tone of mindgive them a higher idea of the qualifications necessary to constitute an influential
member of society , and inspire them with a loftier ambition . For the solid purposes of study— "the acquisition of sound knowledge and valuable principles—and for the formation of habits of vigorous and impartial thought , I am not aware that the London University at present offers 4 tny advantages which a tfttrdeflt at York has particular reasoti t # envy . Not to mtftition th ^ studi es of Theology * a *> d the evidences of Natural dnd Rdvealed RelU
giotty which , it may be supported , would be p imued in the Itistitatloh , If removed with itfe present Theological Tutor , as well id eotinexidn with the London Unlvkrmtj * M at York—tHe wants of that t * tover&ity , 1 u respect of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy , of bqgtej of Ancient and Modem History , are Ddt y « t supplied .
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These are the stadies most ' ultimately connected with the formation of an enlightened Christian minister , and , indeed * of an enlightened in an , and anxiously will every lover of liberal principles wait to see how these important professorships will be filled up . The council evidently labour under a difficulty
in regard to them , fdf which the partial rule they seem to lay down for themselves , may ia sortie degree account . Those * , however , who recollect the complete and conif > rehetrsive manner fri which courses of lectures on these subjects- ^ -to which tnay be added , the Belles Lettrea , were delivered at York , will not entertain sangnme hopes of a speedy or great
improvement tipon it in the London University . But until its wattts in these respects are supplied , until the proceedings of that Itistiturtiofl altogether have attained greater maturity , aud the nature of its influences can be better ascertained , it is evidently to little purpose to make the removal of the College at York a question . Mr . Kenrick ' s sufficiency , as
a Classical Tutor , is no longer the partial boast of his own sect . His name and merits are appreciated by etreiy liberal scholar , and not tmknown within the walls of the London University itself . Whatever may be the defect * which have been the usual subjects of complaint In the York Academy , they are not such as the London University is at present
calculated to remedy . The departments of science in tvhich that University excels—Chemistry , Anatomy , Law , and the Modern Languages , valuable , no doubt , in themselves , are not the most intimately associated with eminence in the profession of the ministry . Above all , it is to be considered whether the advantagean advantage to students for the ministry inestimable—of a domestic
establishment , which York now possesses , would not be impaired by a removal to the metropolis ; whether it could be removed without far greater expense than the funds of the Institution conveniently admit ; and whether ^ if the expense were no obstacle , it coxrld be beneficially aud practically brought iftto connexion with the University , asth * University is ttaw governed and ctftfdticted . These are questions uj > on which it is , perhaps , difficult to forfti a aoiid opinion .
Should those hints upon the question of Hieronltntis be . ^ deeitied worthy of your acceptance , they are at your service . And 1 may , perhaps , without impropriety , take this opportunity of expressing the very deep and grateful setae I entertain , in common , 1 have no doubt ,
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t $ 78 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 878, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/62/
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