Feeling himself above others in his one little branch--in the classification of toadstools, or Carthaginian history--he waxes great in his own eyes and looks down on others.

Having all his sympathies educated in one way, they die out in every other; and he is apt to remain a peevish, narrow, and intolerant bigot.

Dilettante is now a term of reproach; but there is a certain form of dilettantism to which no one can object.

It is this that we want among our students.

We wish them to abandon no subject until they have seen and felt its merit--to act under a general interest in all branches of knowledge, not a commercial eagerness to excel in one.
In both these directions our sympathies are constipated.