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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    LIBERAL EDUCATION. 11 tions, as guiding and determining human con- duct in relation to the Conscience ;—though I must ever believe that Genius in its undoubted and paramount dignity is always associated vs'ith moral worth,—as has been well expressed in the noble saying of Strabo, as applied emi- nently to the poet : 'H Se (lipETri) ttoivtov awelsvicrai Tov civOptoTTOv' KOI ou^ oiov Ts ayaOov yevsaOai TroirfTrjv, /drj irponpov ysvTfdEvra avSpa dyadov* Hence then—if the individuality of man be universally in its end and aim the harmonious development and union of those constituent powers, moral and intellectual, which are the birthright of our humanity—we may now, with better, hope of a successful solution, revert to the problem, which we have proposed, of educing the excellence, in which Genius, or the ideal individuality of man consists. This is the goal, or ideal point, to whij^h, however distant its actual attainment may be, it must ever remain our object to approach, as near as we can : and I anticipate no objection when I state that the process, for attaining or approxi- mating to this great moral result, constitutes, in its scope and end,—a Liberal Education. And in the following attempt to define the intellectual discipline, which may best prepare the mind for the scientific cultivation of a pro- fession, and aid the individual in forming his * Geof^raph. Lib. I. cap. ii. See Coleridge's Table Talk,