Topic - Education The Idea of a University
John Henry Newman

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Dedication, Part 1
Dedication, Part 2

Advertisement, Part 2
Title Page

Revised September, 2001—NR.
 

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Part 1. University Teaching
Page
Preface     ix.
  1.  Introductory      1.
  2.  Theology a Branch of Knowledge    19.
  3.  Bearing of Theology on other Knowledge    43.
  4.  Bearing of other Knowledge on Theology    71.
  5.  Knowledge its own end    99.
  6.  Knowledge viewed in relation to Learning  124.
  7.  Knowledge viewed in relation to Professional Skill   151.
  8.  Knowledge viewed in relation to Religious Duty  179.
  9.  Duties of the Church towards Knowledge  212.

Part 2. University Subjects

  1.

Christianity and Letters

 249.
  2.  Literature  268.
  3.  Catholic Literature in the English Tongue  295.
§ 1. In its relation to Religious Literature  296.
§ 2. to Science  299.
§ 3. to Classical Literature  307.
§ 4. to Literature of the Day  320.
  4.  Elementary Studies  331.
§ 1. Grammar  334.
§ 2. Composition  348.
§ 3. Latin Writing  362.
§ 4. General Religious Knowledge  372.
  5.  A Form of Infidelity of the Day  381.
§ 1. Its sentiments  381.
§ 2. Its policy  392.
  6.  University Preaching  405.
  7.  Christianity and Physical Science  428.
  8.  Christianity and Scientific Investigation  456.
  9.  Discipline of Mind  480.
10.  Christianity and Medical Science  505.
Index  523.

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Links

Ward's Life of Cardinal Newman, chapter 11, chapter 12, chapter 13 (background)

Historical Sketches, volume 3, Rise and Progress of Universities

Sermons Preached on Various Occasions (see sermons 1 - 8)

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Dedication, Part 1

 

Hospes eram, et collegistis Me.
———————

IN GRATEFUL NEVER-DYING REMEMBRANCE

OF HIS MANY FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS,
LIVING AND DEAD,
AT HOME AND ABROAD

IN GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, FRANCE,

IN BELGIUM, GERMANY, POLAND, ITALY, AND MALTA,

IN NORTH AMERICA, AND OTHER COUNTRIES,

WHO, BY THEIR RESOLUTE PRAYERS AND PENANCE,

AND BY THEIR GENEROUS STUBBORN EFFORTS,

AND BY THEIR MUNIFICENT ALMS,

HAVE BROKEN FOR HIM THE STRESS

OF A GREAT ANXIETY,

THESE DISCOURSES,

OFFERED TO OUR LADY AND ST. PHILIP ON ITS RISE,

COMPOSED UNDER ITS PRESSURE,

FINISHED ON THE EVE OF ITS TERMINATION,

ARE RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

BY THE AUTHOR.

IN FEST. PRĘSENT. 
B. M. V.
NOV. 21, 1852.

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Dedication, Part 2

{243}

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WILLIAM MONSELL, M.P., ETC., ETC. [Note]

MY DEAR MONSELL,
I seem to have some claim for asking leave of you to prefix your name to the following small Volume, since it is a memorial of work done in a country which you so dearly love, and in behalf of an undertaking in which you feel so deep an interest.

Nor do I venture on the step without some hope that it is worthy of your acceptance, at least on account of those portions of it which have already received the approbation of the learned men to whom they were addressed, and which have been printed at their desire.

But, even though there were nothing to recommend it except that it came from me, I know well that you would kindly welcome it as a token of the truth and constancy with which I am,
MY DEAR MONSELL,
Yours very affectionately,
JOHN H. NEWMAN.

[November. 1858.]

Note

[Now LORD EMLY.]
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Advertisement, Part 2

{245} IT has been the fortune of the author through life, that the Volumes which he has published have grown for the most part out of the duties which lay upon him, or out of the circumstances of the moment. Rarely has he been master of his own studies.

The present collection of Lectures and Essays, written by him while Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, is certainly not an exception to this remark. Rather, it requires the above consideration to be kept in view, as an apology for the want of keeping which is apparent between its separate portions, some of them being written for public delivery, others with the privileged freedom of anonymous compositions.

However, whatever be the inconvenience which such varieties in tone and character may involve, the author cannot affect any compunction for having pursued the illustration of one and the same important subject-matter, with which he had been put in charge, by such methods, graver or lighter, so that they were lawful, as successively came to his hand.

November, 1858.

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Title Page

THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

DEFINED AND ILLUSTRATED

 I. IN NINE DISCOURSES DELIVERED TO THE CATHOLICS OF
 DUBLIN

II. IN OCCASIONAL LECTURES AND ESSAYS ADDRESSED TO THE
MEMBERS OF THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

BY

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

 

NEW IMPRESSION

 

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA

1907

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