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The text that I'm going to draw from in this first talk, mainly the idea of the university,

a little bit from the grammar of assent. And actually the end, when I talk about the grammar

of assent, will take us a little bit back to the differences between Aquinas and Newman on approaches to the existence of God.

I want to say a little bit about that.

So those two books mainly, and then there are two sermons that I'll be drawing from.

One is intellect, instrument of religious training, which was a sermon that Newman gave at the opening

of the Catholic University in Dublin on the Feast of St. Monica.

And then he has another sermon, personal influence, the means of propagating the truth.

So I'll be, if you're interested in which text, it's those two books and those

two sermons. I was thinking a little bit about Newman's idea of a university still is

cited as one of the premier works ever, particularly in the English language, on the nature

of education and particularly liberal education. I think those of us who have grown up in a period, which would be you all not me,

where we've seen a lot of smaller Catholic institutions flourish around the ideals of liberal education,

and we've seen classical education at the primary

and secondary level in both Protestant and Catholic circles flourishing, might think that

we're in this movement, we're returning to something that was common in America. Not the case.

Really not the case.

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