Excerpt from Universities, Ancient and Modern: Read Before the Birkenhead Literary and Scientific Society at the Opening of Its Fifty-First Session, on Monday, the 7th October, 1907 HE ancient Universities, both of this country and of the\\ continent of Europe, have reached their position and functions in relationship to the thought and intellectual life of t the present day, by a long process of evolution, lasting Since the mediaeval times in which most of them began to exist. 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.