text:  Perhaps it is not very important how a man _theorizes_ upon morality; happily for us all God has left no man in such questions practically to the guidance of his understanding; but still considering that academic bodies _are_ partly instituted for the support of speculative truth as well as truth practical we must think it a blot upon the splendour of Oxford and Cambridge that both of them in a Christian land make Paley the foundation of their ethics; the alternative being Aristotle