The Education Demanded by the People of the U. States: A Discourse Delivered at Union College, Schenectady, July 25, 1854, on the Occasion of the ... Nott, D. D., LL. D (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Education Demanded by the People of the U. States: A Discourse Delivered at Union College, Schenectady, July 25, 1854, on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Presidency of Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D

Ous, however, on this occasion, to treat only of the culture of our intellectual nature.

If you will allow me to commence with an elementary thought, I would remark, that every act of the mind ends in a knowledge, sometimes only subjective, but generally both sub jective and objective. Thus I am conscious of a simple emo tion here is a mental act, a mere subjective knowledge. I per ceive a tree; here is a subjective consciousness and an objec tive knowledge. And, on the other hand, every knowledge presupposes an act of mind; for were there no mind, or were the mind incapable of action, knowledge would be impossible.

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