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regard for the kingdom of spirit on which literature thrives.
The social life of a university town, besides, takes color from the strong infusion of university blood.
Literature and scholarship have a natural kinship with modest living, and as the scholar will put books before meat, so a great university is by all its traditions a protest against the indulgence of the flesh.
A society in which a university is planted cannot so easily make riches the measure of social rank, and Cambridge thus will still attract the lovers of a literary life, who value in society the coin which is struck from the same mint as that they carry about with them in their empty pockets.
Cambridge, 1896.
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