English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Unknown
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whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others
as himself. Such an one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education; for he is, as completely as a man can be, in harmony with Nature. He will make the best of her, and she of him. They will get on together rarely; she as his ever beneficent mother; he as her mouthpiece, her conscious self, her minister and interpreter. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 9: From "A Liberal Education; and Where to Find It," 1868.] [Footnote 10: Poll (a slang term used at Cambridge University): those who take a degree without honours.] KNOWLEDGE VIEWED IN RELATION TO LEARNING[11] JOHN HENRY NEWMAN It were well if the English, like the Greek language, possessed some definite word to express, simply and generally, intellectual proficiency or perfection, such as "health," as used with reference to the animal frame, and "virtue," with reference to our moral nature. I am not able to find such a term;--talent, ability, genius, belong distinctly to the raw material, which is the subject-matter, not to that excellence which |
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