 | John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 pages
...be denied ; but next, it is equally plain, that such communication is not the whole of the process. The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive...and meaning the matter of our acquirements ; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our own, or, to use a familiar word, it is a digestion... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1867 - 584 pages
...enlightenment . . . but it is equally plain that such communication is not the whole of the process. The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive...of ideas hitherto unknown to it, but in the mind's simultaneous action upon and towards and among those new ideas, which are rushing in upon it. It is... | |
 | 1912 - 330 pages
...knowledge, no mere acquirement, is the indispensible condition of mental development. The development consists not merely in the passive reception into...mind's energetic and simultaneous action upon and toward those new ideas which are rushing in upon us- There is no development unless there be a comparison... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1873 - 564 pages
...be denied ; but next, it is equally plain, that such communication is not the whole of the process. The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive...and meaning the matter of our acquirements ; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our own, or, to use a familiar word, it is a digestion... | |
 | Robert Galloway - 1881 - 488 pages
...of mind, or fulfils the type of LIBERAL EDUCATION.* The same high authority states : — " If I had 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 our own ; or, to use a familiar word, it is a digestion... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1891 - 654 pages
...the mind experiences no enlargement, this consists not merely in the passive reception into the tuind of a number of ideas hitherto unknown to it, but in...those new ideas which are rushing in upon it. It is tlie action of a formative power, reducing to order and meaning t ft с matter of our acquirements;... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1893 - 616 pages
...in the mincFs energetic and simultaneous action upon_and towards andamongTHose new ideas, which_are rushing in upon it. It is 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... | |
 | William John R. C. Walsh (Archbishop of Dublin.), William Joseph Walsh - 1897 - 564 pages
...be denied ; but next, it is equally plain that such communication is not the whole of the process. " The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive...action upon and towards and among those new ideas . . . We feel our minds to be growing and expanding then, when we not only learn, but refer what we... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1899 - 598 pages
...denied ; but next, it is equally plain, that such jymmnniraH"" ig "',.t — thr whole of th« process. The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive...mind of a number of ideas hitherto unknown to it, but,,in the mind's energetic and simultnnpniiE attion upon and towards and nPir'"[j tIir"in "«'" ''l';ac)... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 pages
...be denied; but next, it is equally plain, that such communication is not the whole of the process. The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive...and meaning the matter of our acquirements; it is a making the objects of our knowledge subjectively our own, or, to use a familiar word, it is a digestion... | |
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The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive 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... 
