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The universities are schools of education, and schools of research. But the primary reason for their (36) is not to be found either in the mere knowledge (37) to the students or in the mere opportunities for research (38) to the members of the faculty. The (39) for the existence of a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the (40) for life, by uniting the young and the old in the (41) consideration of learning. The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively. At least, this is the function which it should (42) for society. A university which fails in this (43) has no reason for existence. This atmosphere of excitement, arising from imaginative consideration, transforms knowledge. A fact is no longer a bare fact: it is invested with all its possibilities. (44) . Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts. It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. (45) Youth is imaginative, and if the imagination is strengthened by discipline, this energy of imagination can in great measure be preserved through life. (46) .