text:  Why should not similar honours be conferred on those students who advance the progress of an infant science as on those who work out with facility the formulae of an exact one; and why should not acquirements in either rank equally high with the critical knowledge of the _digamma_ or the _a priori_ philosophy of Aristotle? Is not Bacon's Novum Organon as much entitled to be made a standard book for the schools as Aldrich's logic? Venerating English universities we approve not the inconsiderate outcries against systematic and time-honoured educational discipline; but it would increase our love for these seminaries of sound learning could we more frequently see such men as Davy emanate from Oxford instead of from the pneumatic institution of Bristol