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Jowett: The Modern university exists by consent of the world outside. We must send out men fitted for that world. What better example can we show them than classical antiquity? Nowhere was the ideal of morality, art, and social order realized more harmoniously than in Greece in the age of the great philosophers.
Ruskin: Buggery apart.
Jowett: Buggery apart.
Pater: Actually, Italy in the late-fifteenth century... Nowhere was the ideal of art, morality, and social order realized more harmoniously, morality and social order apart.
-Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
I always think of the lovable Derbyshire when I think of that exchange.