From SMH, October 13, 1852.attributed to him:SMH . Archive
“In the midst of the social and political revolution taking place before our very eyes,” Dr. Woolley observed, “charged in many respects with elements of anxiety and anxiety, there are no conditions more suggestive to the national mind than sober rejoicing and rational hope, from the ground up in the bosom of our society, by an unsupported act and not proposed to that same society, of the first colonial university in the British Empire.”
The inaugural words of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Charles Nicholson, and Professor of Classics, the Honorable Priest just named, were heard by the great and esteemed audience, and thousands read with admiration. who did not have the privilege of being heard. We will not inquire to whom the palm belongs. Both were rich in true rhetoric, and do justice to the spirit’s inspiration. The most sensitive subjects which had to be touched were treated wisely, excluding theology from the studies recognized by the university, and random understanding among its members of different beliefs.
Two students at the University of Sydney, June 1924.attributed to him:Staff photographer
Regardless of the sincerity of this essential element of the system may be condemned by those who have a religion mixed with education in all its stages, from the basics of nursery to the highest gains from academic arbours, due weight in fairness must be attached to the conditions under which the university is founded, and to the character of the population in which Designed for them. The institution emerged from a legislature whose members were of different and conflicting doctrines, and whose choice was thus between an all-encompassing system or nothing at all. It was designed for a society also divided in matters of religious belief, but at its common expense the institution was given: it was inevitable, therefore, that one class of society should be preferred to the account and the exclusion of all others, or the university should be founded on a principle which ought to be accorded to all castes Free and equal participation in its benefits.
The University of Sydney, then, is, from a theological point of view, the only university the legislature could offer, and the only one that would have fit the population whose money would support it.
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But while theology is necessarily excluded from the university, the ‘nursing mother of literature’, it qualifies the respective religious bodies of the colony to organize collegiate institutions, combining theological education within it, with the benefits of collegiate affiliation.
They must enter into this great work in a liberal and ardent spirit, appropriate to the critical aspect of the times, calculated to give free space and diffuse energy to the national institution which now invites all, without discrimination, to participate in it. maternity offices.
Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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