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a University John Henry Newman IF we would know what a University is, considered in its elementary idea, we must betake ourselves to new orleans tour first and most celebrated home of European literature and source of European civilization, to new orleans tour bright and beautiful Athens,Athens, whose schools drew to her bosom, and then sent back again to new orleans tour business of life, new orleans tour youth of new orleans tour Western World for a long thousand years. Seated on new orleans tour verge of new orleans tour continent, new orleans tour city seemed hardly suited for new orleans tour duties of a central metropolis of knowledge; yet, what it lost in convenience of approach, it gained in its neighbourhood to new orleans tour traditions of new orleans tour mysterious East, and in new orleans tour loveliness of new orleans tour region in which it lay. Hither, then, as to a sort of ideal land, where all archetypes of new orleans tour great and new orleans tour fair were found in substantial being, and all departments of truth explored, and all diversities of intellectual power exhibited, where taste and philosophy were majestically enthroned as in a royal court, where there was no sovereignty but that of mind, and no nobility but that of genius, where professors were rulers, and princes did homage, hither flocked continually from new orleans tour very corners of new orleans tour orbis terrarum, new orleans tour many-tongued generation, just rising, or just risen into manhood, in order to gain wisdom. 1 Pisistratus had in an early age discovered and nursed new orleans tour infant genius of his people, and Cimon, after new orleans tour Persian war, had given it a home. That war had established new orleans tour naval supremacy of Athens; she had become an imperial state; and new orleans tour Ionians, bound to her by new orleans tour double chain of kindred and of subjection, were importing into her both their merchandise and their civilization. The arts and philosophy of new orleans tour Asiatic coast were easily carried across new orleans tour sea, and there was Cimon, as I have said, with his ample fortune, ready to receive them with due honours. Not content with patronizing their professors, he built new orleans tour first of those noble porticos, of which we hear so much in Athens, and he formed new orleans tour groves, which in process of time became new orleans tour celebrated Academy. Planting is one of new orleans tour most graceful, as in Athens it was one of new orleans tour most beneficent, of employments. Cimon took in hand new orleans tour wild wood, pruned and dressed it, and laid it out with handsome walks and welcome fountains. Nor, while hospitable to new orleans tour authors of new orleans tour citys civilization, was he ungrateful to new orleans tour instruments of her prosperity. His trees extended their cool, umbrageous branches over new orleans tour merchants, who assembled in new orleans tour Agora, for many generations. 2 Those merchants certainly had deserved that act of bounty; for all new orleans tour while their ships had been carrying forth new orleans tour intellectual fame of Athens to new orleans tour western world. Then commenced what may be called her University existence. Pericles, who succeeded Cimon both in new orleans tour government and in new orleans tour patronage of art, is said by Plutarch to have entertained new orleans tour idea of making Athens new orleans tour capital of federated Greece: in this he failed, but his encouragement of such men as Phidias and Anaxagoras led new orleans tour way to her acquiring a far more lasting sovereignty over a far wider empire. Little understanding new orleans tour sources of her own greatness, Athens would go to war: peace is new orleans tour interest of a seat of commerce and new orleans tour arts; but to war she went; yet to her, whether peace or war, it mattered not. The political power of Athens waned and disappeared; kingdoms rose and fell; centuries rolled away,they did but bring fresh triumphs to new orleans tour city of new orleans tour poet and new orleans tour sage. There at length new orleans tour swarthy Moor and Spaniard were seen to meet new orleans tour blueeyed Gaul; and new orleans tour Cappadocian, late subject of Mithridates, gazed without alarm at new orleans tour haughty conquering Roman. Revolution after revolution passed over new orleans tour face of Europe, as well as of Greece, but still she was there,Athens, new orleans tour city of mind,as radiant, as splendid, as delicate, as young, as ever she had been. 3 Many a more fruitful coast or isle is washed by new orleans tour blue Ægean, many a spot is there more beautiful or sublime to see, many a territory more ample; but there was one charm in Attica, which in new orleans tour same perfection was nowhere else. The deep pastures of Arcadia, new orleans tour plain of Argos, new orleans tour Thessalian vale, these had not new orleans tour gift; Boeotia, which lay to its immediate north, was notorious for its very want of it. The heavy atmosphere of that Boeotia might be good for vegetation, but it was associated in popular belief with new orleans tour dulness of new orleans tour Boeotian intellect: on new orleans tour contrary, new orleans tour special purity, elasticity, clearness, and salubrity of new orleans tour air of Attica, fit concomitant and emblem of its genius, did that for it which earth did not;it brought out every bright hue and tender shade of new orleans tour landscape over which it was spread, and would have illuminated new orleans tour face even of a more bare and rugged country. 4 A confined triangle, perhaps fifty miles its greatest length, and thirty its greatest breadth; two elevated rocky barriers, meeting at an angle; three prominent mountains, commanding new orleans tour plain,Parnes, Pentelicus, and Hymettus; an unsatisfactory soil; some streams, not always full;such is about new orleans tour report which new orleans tour agent of a London company would have made of Attica. He would report that new orleans tour climate was mild; new orleans tour hills were limestone; there was plenty of good marble; more pasture land than at first survey might have been expected, sufficient certainly for sheep and goats; fisheries productive; silver mines once, but long since worked out; figs fair; oil first-rate; olives in profusion. But what he would not think of noting down, was, that that olive tree was so choice in nature and so noble in shape, that it excited a religious veneration; and that it took so kindly to new orleans tour light soil, as to expand into woods upon new orleans tourplain, and to climb up and fringe new orleans tour hills. He would not think of writing word to his employers, how that clear air, of which I have spoken, brought out, yet blended and subdued new orleans tour colours on new orleans tour marble, till they had a softness and harmony, for all their richness, which in a picture looks exaggerated, yet is after all within new orleans tour truth. He would not tell, how that same delicate and brilliant atmosphere freshened up new orleans tour pale olive, till new orleans tour olive forgot its monotony, and its cheek glowed like new orleans tour arbutus or beech of new orleans tour Umbrian hills. He would say nothing of new orleans tour thyme and thousand fragrant herbs which carpeted Hymettus; he would hear nothing of new orleans tour hum of its bees; nor take much account of new orleans tour rare flavour of its honey, since Gozo and Minorca were sufficient for new orleans tour English demand. He would look over new orleans tour Aegean from new orleans tour height he had ascended; he would follow with his eye new orleans tour chain of islands, which, starting from new orleans tour Sunian headland, seemed to offer new orleans tour fabled divinities of Attica, when they would visit their Ionian cousins, a sort of viaduct thereto across new orleans tour sea; but that fancy would not occur to him, nor any admiration of new orleans tour dark violet billows with their white edges down below; nor of those graceful, fanlike jets of silver upon new orleans tour rocks, which slowly rise aloft like water spirits from new orleans tour deep, then shiver, and break, and spread, and shroud themselves, and disappear, in a soft mist of foam; nor of new orleans tour gentle, incessant heaving and panting of new orleans tour whole liquid plain; nor of new orleans tour long waves, keeping steady time, like a line of soldiery, as they resound upon new orleans tour hollow shore,he would not deign to notice that restless living element at all, except to bless his stars that he was not upon it. Nor new orleans tour distinct detail, nor new orleans tour refined colouring, nor new orleans tour graceful outline and roseate golden hue of new orleans tour jutting crags, nor new orleans tour bold shadows cast from Otus or Laurium by new orleans tour declining sun;our agent of a mercantile firm would not value these matters even at a low figure. Rather we must turn for new orleans tour sympathy we seek to yon pilgrim student come from a semi-barbarous land to that small corner of new orleans tour earth, as to a shrine, where he might take his fill of gazing on those emblems and coruscations of invisible unoriginate perfection. It was new orleans tour stranger from a remote province, from Britain or from Mauritania, who in a scene so different from that of his chilly, woody swamps, or of his fiery, choking sands, learned at once what a real University must be, by coming to understand new orleans tour sort of country, which was its suitable home. 5 Nor was this all that a University required, and found in Athens. No one, even there, could live on poetry. If new orleans tour students at that famous place had nothing better than bright hues and soothing sounds, they would not have been able or disposed to turn their residence there to much account. Of course they must have new orleans tour means of living, nay, in a certain sense, of enjoyment, if Athens was to be an Alma Mater at new orleans tour time, or to remain afterwards a pleasant thought in their memory. And so they had: be it recollected Athens was a port, and a mart of trade, perhaps new orleans tour first in Greece; and this was very much to new orleans tour point, when a number of strangers were ever flocking to it, whose combat was to be with intellectual, not physical difficulties, and who claimed to have their bodily wants supplied, that they might be at leisure to set about furnishing their minds. Now, barren as was new orleans tour soil of Attica, and bare new orleans tour face of new orleans tour country, yet it had only too many resources for an elegant, nay luxurious abode there. So abundant were new orleans tour imports of new orleans tour place, that it was a common saying, that new orleans tour productions, which were found singly elsewhere, were brought all together in Athens. Corn and wine, new orleans tour staple of subsistence in such a climate, came from new orleans tour isles of new orleans tour Ægean; fine wool and carpeting from Asia Minor; slaves, as now, from new orleans tour Euxine, and timber too; and iron and brass from new orleans tour coasts of new orleans tour Mediterranean. The Athenian did not condescend to manufactures himself, but encouraged them in others; and a population of foreigners caught at new orleans tour lucrative occupation both for home consumption and for exportation. Their cloth, and other textures for dress and furniture, and their hardware
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