The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

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Lzfe of Benjamin Jowelt

[CHAP. XII

This is really written in Scotland, Tummel Bridge Inn,
Pitlochry, which has been the best, I think, of my summer
residences.
To F. T. PALGRAVE.
OXFORD, September 26, I865.
I most entirely agree with your remark about the [Cambridge]
Apostles. We must try and avoid that at Oxford. To teach
men how they may learn to grow independently and for themselves, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do for
another, and how to grow, if possible, in after life. I hate to
meet a man whom I have known ten years ago, and find that
he is at precisely the same point, neither moderated, nor
quickened, nor experienced, but simply stiffened; he ought
to be beaten. He had the charm of youth once; now, like
many a pretty girl, he has the plainness of middle life.
Is it too late to alter 'Sanatory'? The word has a bad
smell, and reminds me of a story that some one told me of
Mr. Chadwick's children, 'playing at drains.' Poor innocents!
'gracious,' 'ennobling,' 'elevating.'... I mean to make the
utmost use of my money and my time for the future, and I am
a good deal strengthened in this by the affection that you, and
many of my pupils have so abundantly shown me-it seems
to me like the only return that I can make. And perhaps
my free way of life is as good for this purpose as any position
could be.
To R. B. D. MORIER, C.B.
OXFORD, January 0o, I866.
MY DEAR OLD FELLOW,
Let me tell you what real and honest pleasure your
success gives me. You have, indeed, accomplished a great
work. And I think this is only the beginning and not
the end '.
I am sure that you are right about these international
questions becoming of great importance. Europe will be
much more one nation in fifty or even in twenty-five years
(if only some of the limbs could be reset by L. N. 2 or any

See p. 436.

2 Louis Napoleon.