To this Newman replied that "Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the stitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, 25if it really be such, is its own reward." And in a sharp jab at Ba he said:"The Philosophy of Utility3, you will say, Gentlemen, has at least dos work; and I grant it - it aimed low, but it has fulfilled its aim." Newmahat other institutions should carry on rearch, for "If its object were stific 30and philosophical discovery, I do not e why a Uy should have any students" - an obrvation sardonically echoed by today''s students who often think their professors are not ied i all but only in rearch. A Uy training, said Newman, "aims at raising 35the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the publid, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspirations, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exerci of political 40powers, and refining the intercour of private life." It prepares a man "to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility."
To this Newman replied that "Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the stitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, 25if it really be such, is its own reward." And in a sharp jab at Ba he said:"The Philosophy of Utility3, you will say, Gentlemen, has at least dos work; and I grant it - it aimed low, but it has fulfilled its aim." Newmahat other institutions should carry on rearch, for "If its object were stific 30and philosophical discovery, I do not e why a Uy should have any students" - an obrvation sardonically echoed by today''s students who often think their professors are not ied i all but only in rearch. A Uy training, said Newman, "aims at raising 35the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the publid, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspirations, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exerci of political 40powers, and refining the intercour of private life." It prepares a man "to fill any post with credit, and to master any subject with facility."
This beautiful world was being shattered forever even as it was being so beautifully portrayed. By 1852, when Newman wrote, the German 45uies were being the new model. The democratid industrial and stific revolutions were all well underway in the Western World. The gentleman "at home in any society" was soon to be at home in none. Sce was beginning to take the plaoral philosophy, rearch 50the place of teag.