The itinerant lecturers, not less than the university and the local management, have responsibility for the progress of the cause.  An extension lecturer must be something more than a good teacher, something more even than an attractive lecturer:  he must be imbued with the ideas of the movement, and ever on the watch for opportunities of putting them forward.  It is only the lecturer who can maintain in audiences the feeling that they are not simply receiving entertainment or instruction which they have paid for, but that they are taking part in a public work, and are responsible for giving their locality a worthy place in a national scheme of university education.  The lecturer again must mediate between the local and the central management, always ready to assist local committees with suggestions from the experience of other places, and equally attentive to bringing the special wants of different centres before the university authorities.  The movement is essentially a teaching movement, and it is to the body of teachers I look for the discovery of the further steps in the development of popular education.  For such a purpose lecturers and directors alike must be imbued with the missionary spirit.  For University Extension is a missionary university, not content with supplying culture, but seeking to stimulate the demand for it.  This is just the point in which education in the past has shown badly in comparison with religion or politics.  When a man is touched with religious ideas he seeks to make converts, when he has views on political questions he agitates to make his views prevail:  culture on the other hand has been only too often cherished as a badge of exclusiveness, instead of the very consciousness of superior education being felt as a responsibility which could only be satisfied by efforts to educate others.  To infuse a missionary spirit into culture is not the least purpose of University Extension.

I cannot resist the temptation to carry forward this thought from the present into the future.  In University Extension so described may we not see a germ for the University of the Future?  I have made the foundation of our movement the growing conception of education as a permanent interest of adult life side by side with religion and politics.  The change is at best only beginning; it tasks the imagination to conceive all it will imply when it is complete.  To me it appears that this expanding view of education is the third of the three great waves of change the succession of which has made up our modern history.  There was a time when religion itself was identified with a particular class, the clergy alone thinking out what the rest of the nation simply accepted; then came the series of revolutions popularly summed up as the Reformation, by which the whole adult nation claimed to think for itself in matters of religion, and the special profession of the clergy became no more than a single element in the religious life of