It were well if none remained boys all their lives; but what more common
than the sight of grown men, talking on political or moral or religious
subjects, in that offhand, idle way, which we signify by the word
unreal? “That they simply do not know what they are talking about” is
the spontaneous silent remark of any man of sense who hears them.
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This being undeniable, it is plain that, when he suggests to the Irish Hierarchy the establishment of a University, his first and chief and direct object is, not science, art, professional skill, literature, the discovery of knowledge, but some benefit or other, to accrue, by means of literature and science, to his own children; not indeed their formation on any narrow or fantastic type, as, for instance, that of an “English Gentleman” may be called, but their exercise and growth in certain habits, moral or intellectual.
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