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The Scope and Nature of University Education
The Scope and Nature of University Education Author:John Henry Newman General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts Subjects: Universities and colleges Education, Higher Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books ed... more »ition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOUKSE VII. LIBERAL KNOWLEDGE VIEWED IN RELATION TO RELIGION. We shall be brought, gentlemen, to-day, to the termination of the investigation, which I commenced three Discourses back, and which, I was well aware, from its length, if for no other reason, would make demands upon the patience even of indulgent hearers. First I employed myself in establishing the principle, that Knowledge is its own reward; and I showed that, when considered in this light, it is called Liberal Knowledge, and is the scope of Academical Institutions. Next, I examined what is meant by Knowledge, when it is said to be pursued for its own sake ; and I showed, that in order satisfactorily to fulfil this idea, Philosophy must be its form; or, in other words, that its matter must not be admitted into the mind passively, as so much acquirement, but must be mastered and appropriated as a system consisting of parts, related one to the other, and interpretative of one another, in the unity of a whole. Further, I showed that such a philosophical contemplation of the field of knowledge as a whole, leading, as it did, to an understanding of its separate departments, and an appreciation of them respectively, might in consequence be rightly called an illumination; also, it was rightly called an enlargement of mind, because it was a distinct location of things one with another, as if in space; while it was moreover its proper cultivation and its best condition, both because it secured to the intellect the sight of things a...« less