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Excerpt from Oxford During the Last Century: Being Two Series of Papers Published in the Oxford Chronicle and Berks and Bucks Gazette During the Year 1859
Our special theme is the last hundred years of the events belonging to Oxford but we would fain, by way of preface to our notice of this particular period, call attention to the circumstances which make it so much a place of interest and so worthy of attention. The mere mechanical mind points to our looms and factories for the greatness of Eng land but the master mind which informs, directs, and governs all, which teaches to command the fire and to control the flood, is to be found in our seats of learning and there, after all, the presiding genius of commerce and the arts has taken her seat for there is no power on earth which setteth up a throne or chair of state in the spirits and souls of men, and in their cogitations, imaginations, Opi nions, and beliefs, but knowledge and learning. It is this power which gives commandment to the will and the understanding, and to it we are in debted for the sovereignty and pre-eminence of our country in whatever they consist. King Henry the Eighth well understood what conduced to the good governance of the realm when he judged no land better bestowed than that which is given to our Universities, discriminating between what he called pulling down sin, in dissolving the monas teries, and the desire to overthrow our real nurseries of knowledge. Nor was the counsel given to his son and successor, by one who had caught the same sentiment, less pertinent to the end, upon a petition which had been made for dissolving all Collegiate establishments whatever: If, said the Duke of Somerset to Edward the Sixth on this occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
