Mental dynamics, or groundwork of a professional education. The Hunterian Oration before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 15th February, 1847 / By Joseph Henry Green.

  • Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.
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1847
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    memorial shall not depart away, and his name shall live from generation to generation.'* In the commencement of Systematic Educa- tion, and in every stage of its progress, let it never be forgotten, as a rule which deserves to be written in letters of gold, that “ as the forms in all organic existence, so must all true and living knowledge proceed from within ;— that it may be trained, supported, fed, excited, but can never be infused or impressed.’f But if this principle is to be effectually carried out, the primary object of the teacher will be that of calling forth the intellectual faculties from their dormant state ; and of disciplining the mind to those habits of conscious reflection, by which it gains the knowledge and obtains the mastery of its own powers, apart from the par- ticular and contingent subject matters, on which they are exerted. Hence those elemen- tary factors of thought, which we name Ab- straction and Generalization are first to be educed and exercised ;—indispensable aids, by noting the different in the like, and the like in the different, to the naming, sorting, and class- ing of all the materials, of which sensible and conscious experience is composed.]; And in * Preliminary Essay by the Rev. James Marsh, reprinted in the second volume of the fifth edition of Aids to Reflection. It cannot he too highly commended as an introduction to the study of Coleridge’s writings. t Coleridge. The Friend, vol. iii. p. 183. Third edition. 1 Abstraction designates the process, by which, in con-