Excerpt from From a Modern University: Some Aims and Aspirations of Science It has been said that the future historians of England will record the foundation of its five new universities as the most noteworthy incident that has marked the opening of the twentieth century. The movement has been spoken of, in a picturesque way, as the Northern Renaissance. I think that we who have lived through this period may be inclined rather to date the genesis of the universities in the nineteenth century, and to reckon it among the great movements for emancipation of people and liberalization of institutions, which will make that century and the Victorian age for ever memorable. The university colleges, out of which these new universities have grown, seem to me to owe their origin not to anything that can be properly called a Renaissance. University College, London, and the Owens College, Manchester, were the first, and I think there is the clearest evidence that their success was determined, at the outset, by two factors; firstly, by their providing higher education for those who were unable to subscribe to the religious tests imposed by Oxford and Cambridge, and secondly, by the liberal recognition which they gave to natural science. At a later stage, they became distinguishes as the academic resorts of the poor in purse, and as the nurseries of applied science. 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.