William Rathbone VI

and when the true light and the true divine love dwell in a man he loves nothing else but god alone for he loves god as the good and for the sake of the good and all goods is one and one is all for verily all is one and one is all in god amen INTELLECTUAL LIFE Liverpool has always been too much absorbed in her commerce to take any prominent position in the world of literature and education until recent years, when we have atoned, in some degree, for our remissness in the past by the founding of our university.

Professor Ramsay Murr, in a recent speech, however, claims that he had a renaissance in Liverpool in the early years of the 19th century, when a group of thinkers, scholars and writers, finding its centre in William Roscoe, gave to liverpool a position and a name in the literary world and she became a real seat of literary activity to that remarkable man william roscoe we owe the athenum the literary and philosophical society and the roscoe collection of pictures now in the walker art gallery this intellectual effort quickly lost its vitality and for long years the literary and philosophical society and the philomathic society struggled alone to keep burning the light of higher culture and literary activity elementary education was almost entirely in the hands of the church middle-class education depended upon the liverpool collegiate the mechanics institute afterwards the liverpool institute and the royal institute the fashion of sending boys to our great public schools did not set in until the seventies such was the condition of intellectual life when in eighteen eighty the liverpool university college was established mainly through the efforts of the late Earl of Derby, William Rathbone, Christopher Bushell, E.K. Muspratt, David Jardine, Sir Edward Lawrence, Robert Gladstone, Mr. Muspratt, Sir John Brunner, John Rankin, and William Johnson.

The first principal, Dr. Rendell, rendered excellent service in these early struggling years, which were happily followed by still greater and even more successful efforts under Vice-Chancellor Dale.

resulting in the granting of a royal charter in 1903 and the founding of a university.