The Idea of a University

Hospes eram, et collegistis Me. IN GRATEFUL NEVER-DYING REMEMBRANCE OF HIS MANY FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS, LIVING AND DEAD, AT HOME AND…

The view taken of a University in these Discourses is the following:—That it is a place of teaching universal knowledge. This implies that…

In addressing myself, Gentlemen, to the consideration of a question which has excited so much interest, and elicited so much discussion at…

There were two questions, to which I drew your attention, Gentlemen, in the beginning of my first Discourse, as being of especial…

When men of great intellect, who have long and intently and exclusively given themselves to the study or investigation of some one…

Nothing is more common in the world at large than to consider the resistance, made on the part of religious men, especially Catholics, to…

A University may be considered with reference either to its Students or to its Studies; and the principle, that all Knowledge is a whole…

It were well if the English, like the Greek language, possessed some definite word to express, simply and generally, intellectual…

I have been insisting, in my two preceding Discourses, first, on the cultivation of the intellect, as an end which may reasonably be…

We shall be brought, Gentlemen, to-day, to the termination of the investigation which I commenced three Discourses back, and which, I was…

I have to congratulate myself, Gentlemen, that at length I have accomplished, with whatever success, the difficult and anxious undertaking…

To The Right Honourable WILLIAM MONSELL, M.P., ETC., ETC.31

It has been the fortune of the author through life, that the Volumes which he has published have grown for the most part out of the duties…

A Lecture in the School of Philosophy and Letters.

A Lecture in the School of Philosophy and Letters.

One of the special objects which a Catholic University would promote is that of the formation of a Catholic Literature in the English…

It has often been observed that, when the eyes of the infant first open upon the world, the reflected rays of light which strike them from…

Though it cannot be denied that at the present day, in consequence of the close juxtaposition and intercourse of men of all religions,…

When I obtained from various distinguished persons the acceptable promise that they would give me the advantage of their countenance and…

A Lecture in the School of Medicine.

A Lecture Written for the School of Science.

An Address to the Evening Classes.

An Address to the Students of Medicine.