The Idea of a University

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• 健康本身是快乐事，虽然它并不产生什么东西， 但却特别值得追求与珍惜。 Health is a good in itself, though nothing came of it, and is especially worth seeking and cherishing: 不管怎么说，伴随着健康的福气是如此之大， 福气与健康的关系又是如此之密切， 能够增进健康，始终环绕着健康， 以致我们总是一想起健康就觉得它既有用又令人快乐； yet, after all, the blessings which attend its presence are so great, while they are so close to it and so redound back upon it and encircle it, that we never think of it except as useful as well as good, and praise and prize it for what it does, as well as for what it is, though at the same time we cannot point out any definite and distinct work or production which it can be said to effect. 我们赞美，珍视健康本身， 也赞美，珍视健康所产生的一切， 我们无法同时指出什么具体明确的效益是健康所产生的。 And so as regards intellectual culture, I am far from denying utility in this large sense as the end of Education, wh... (查看原文)

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• Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another; good sense is not conscience, refinement is not humility, nor largeness and justness of view faith. Philosophy , however enlightened. however profound, gives no command over the passions, no influential motives, no vivifying principles. Liberal Education makes not the Christian, not the Catholic, but the gentleman. It is well to be a gentleman, it is well to have a cultivated intellect, a delicate taste, a candid, equitable, dispassionate mind, a noble and courteous bearing in the conduct of life--these are the connatural qualities of a large knowledge; they are the objects of a University; I am advocating, I shall illustrate and insist upon them; but still, I repeat, they are no guarantee for sanctity or even for conscientiousness, they may attac... (查看原文)

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