random-thinking

Updated: June 6, 2025

From the fact that Maynooth by its constitution could never have developed into a great national University, and that Trinity College has never, as a matter of fact, done so, and has thus, in my opinion, missed a unique opportunity, it has come about that Ireland has been without any great centre of thought whose influence would have tended to leaven the mass of mental inactivity or random-thinking so prevalent in Ireland, and would have created a body of educated public opinion sufficiently informed and potent to secure the study and discussion on their merits of questions of vital interest to the country.

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett - Ireland In The New Century