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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
is the result of exercise and training.


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