Trinity College, Dublin / by W. Macneile Dixon.

  • William Macneile Dixon
Date:
1902
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Credit: Trinity College, Dublin / by W. Macneile Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOUNDATION AND EARLY YEARS It was not permitted to the genius or fortune of Elizabeth to add the pacification of Ireland to the successes of her reign. In no slight measure were these successes the work of hardy adventurers, yet to the absence from Ireland of adventurers, military or political, few will incline to attribute the failures of the English rule. Conveniently situated for the purposes of the ex- perimental English legislator in modern times as for those of the landless knight of earlier days, the value of such an island in the education of the Anglo-Saxon race has hitherto, perhaps, been overlooked. In corpore ml% runs the proverb, experimentum. Here at least the race learned or might have learned the lesson, un- pleasantly emphasized later in the American War of Independence, that Greek meets Greek when the English by birth encounter the English by blood. Occasionally, however, the ambitions of the colonists in Ireland met with favour in the hearts, or at least in the policies, of English statesmen, and to one of these fortunate conjunctions in the political firmament is due the foundation of Trinity College, Dublin. 1
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