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Truth and universities in Australia.(Universities)

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| September 01, 2007 | Melleuish, Gregory | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE QUEST FOR TRUTH has traditionally been the vocation of those who choose university life. This has been expressed in the nineteenth-century ideal that the university stands for the realm of solid knowledge as opposed to the opinion of the general society and that its task is to counter the deficiencies of mere opinion.

In turn this goes back to Coleridge's idea that the church is a separate estate of the realm devoted to intellectual and spiritual matters and staffed by a particular group of people devoted to such matters, a clerisy. The church includes schools and universities as well as religious establishments and, as Coleridge states clearly, is Christian ...

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