I for one, looking back on the history of past years, cannot think, as some seem to do, that it has increased.

On the contrary, it seems to me that it has greatly diminished in violence when displayed, and that its displays are far less frequent.

Such, I believe, will be more and more the case; and that whilst religious distinctions will remain the same, and conscientious convictions unaltered, social and party differences consequent on those distinctions and convictions will daily diminish; that all alike will more and more feel in how many things they can think and act together for the benefit of their common country, and of the community of which they all are members; how they can be glad together in her prosperity, and be sad together in the day of her distress; and work together at all times to promote her good.

That this College is calculated to aid in a great degree in effecting this happy result, I for one cannot entertain the shadow of a doubt.

"Esto perpetua!"' 'Esto perpetua.' But there remains, I believe, more yet to be done for education in the West Indies; and that is to carry out Mr. Keenan's scheme for a Central University for the whole of the West Indian Colonies, {297a} as a focus of higher education; and a focus, also, of cultivated public opinion, round which all that is shrewdest and noblest in the islands shall rally, and find strength in moral and intellectual union.