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542 TRAVELS
an{fwer any gueftions that may be put to them by the ftudents, »
whether in the le@ture-room or privately. The profeffors moft
diftinguifhed by academical ardour encourage fuch queftions very
much, and are highly delighted when they find in them proofs
not only of diligence, but of genius; for, not to take for granted
every thing that is given out, but to hefitate, to doubt, and to
ftart difficulties, is fo far to be confidered as a mark of genius, as
it fhews that other powers of the mind are at work befides mere
conception and memory. I have been told by different perfons,
both in Ireland and Scotland, that the celebrated Hutchinion,
profeflor of moral philofophy in the univerfity of Glafgow, and
author of a book on morals, which makes all virtue to confift in
benevolence, prompted by a moral fenfe, was wont to live, as it
were, and converfe with his pupils, as if they had been his equals
and companions. There was never a day that pafled when he did
not walk even for hours in the college gardens with fome of his
ftudents, of whofe capacity he entertained a good opinion, or with
one that chofe to converfe with him, and afk any queftion. In
the evenings, in like manner, he always had a number of them at
his houfe.
The fcience of theology, if it admits of any progreflive im-
provement, has certainly experienced none in the univerfity of
Lund, where orthodoxy reigns in its moft rigid form. ‘The ca-
liph Omar was not more firmly perfuaded that every thing ne-
ceflary or proper to be known by man was contained in the Ko-
ran, than the profeffors of divinity at Lund are, that there is
nothing
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