Such a union and concern of the intellectual powers, such an enlargement and development, such a comprehensiveness, is necessarily a matter of training. When, the, we speak of the communication of Knowledge as being Education, we thereby really imply that that Knowledge is a state or condition of mind and since cultivation of mind is surely worth seeking for its own sake, we are thus brought once more to the conclusion, which the word “Liberal” and the word “Philosophy” have already suggested, that there is a Knowledge, which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor. Knowledge, indeed, when thus exalted into a scientific form, is also power.īut education is a higher word it implies an action upon our mental nature, and the formation of a character it is something individual and permanent, and is commonly spoken of in connection with religion and virtue. Knowledge is called by the name of Science or Philosophy, when it is acted upon, informed, or if I may use a strong figure, impregnated by Reason.
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