 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1867 - 584 pages
...matter of our acquirements ; it is the making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our own . . . it is a digestion of what we receive into the substance...come before the mind, and a systematizing of them . . . A mind thus enlarged possesses the knowledge, not only of things, but also of their mutual and... | |
 | 1928 - 694 pages
...is not complete when it is confined to only one subject, for Newman believes that knowledge is the digestion of what we receive into the substance of our previous state of thought. It is not an end in itself, but must be enlarged upon and unless there is a comparison of ideas with... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1891 - 654 pages
...action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning t ft с matter of our acquirements; it is making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our...into the substance of our previous state of thought." This is the opinion of all psychologists, but some sciolists preach a new education in which is revealed... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1893 - 616 pages
...the action of a formative power, • reducing to o7der~a~nd meaning the matter of our acquirements ; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively...to follow. •/•There is no enlargement, unless o ' there be a comparison of ideas one with another, as they come before the mind, and a systematizing... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 pages
...is the action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning the matter of our acquirements ; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively...and without this no enlargement is said to follow. Th"i./. ;cn/s ""i.irpfirP'M'it. unless fli^ro KP n mmp..irknn nf ideas one with another, as they come... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 pages
...is the action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning the matter of our acquirements ; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively...with another, as they come before the mind, and a systematising of them. We feel our minds to be growing and expanding then, when we not only learn,... | |
 | 1916 - 798 pages
...intellectual life has been expressed with unapproachable precision and delicacy by Cardinal Newman. He says: There is no enlargement unless there be a comparison...come before the mind, and a systematizing of them And therefore a truly great intellect, and recognized to be such by the common opinion of mankind,... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1913 - 120 pages
...It is the action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning the matter of our acquirements; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively...come before the mind, and a systematizing of them, i "We feel our minds to be growing and expanding then, when we not only learn, but refer what we learn... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 pages
...subjectively our own, or, to use a familiar word, it is a digestion of what we receive, into the sub25 stance of our previous state of thought; and without this...with another, as they come before the mind, and a systematising of them. We feel our minds to be growing and expanding 30 then, when we not only learn,... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...It is the action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning the matter of our acquirements; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively...word, it is a digestion of what we receive, into the sub25 stance of our previous state of thought; and without this no enlargement is said to follow. There... | |
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... reception into the mind of a number of ideas hitherto unknown to it, but in the mind's energetic and simultaneous action upon and towards and among those new ideas, which are rushing in upon it. It is the action of a formative power, reducing to order... 
