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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The Oratorian Blessed John Henry Newman evokes the difficulty of orientating oneself amidst novel surroundings, glimpsed only fragmentarily:[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” padding_top=”50″ padding_bottom=”175″ css_animation=”element_from_fade”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1459210711040{margin-right: -50px !important;}”]<\/i><\/span>[vc_empty_space height=”16px”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]Who has not felt the irritation of mind and impatience created by a deep, rich country, visited for the first time, with winding lanes, and high hedges, and green steeps, and tangled woods, and everything smiling indeed, but in a maze. The same feeling comes upon us in a strange city, when we have no map of its streets. Hence you hear of practised travelers, when they first come into a place, mounting some high hill or church tower, by way of reconnoitering its neighbourhood. In like manner, you must be above your knowledge, not under it, or it will oppress you; and the more you have of it, the greater will be the load \u2026<\/em> (The Idea of a University, <\/em>VI, 7)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1459996864310{margin-top: -125px !important;}”][vc_column_text]Newman is articulating a challenge any student will recognize, a problem at once intellectual and affective. What the student must acquire, Newman advises, is a connected view of the terrain, an encompassing perspective. Only by \u201cmounting some high hill or church tower\u201d can one achieve a vantage point \u201cabove \u2026 <\/strong>knowledge, not under it\u201d and thereby begin to bring together what was initially disparate and apparently unrelated.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n <\/i><\/a><\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”75″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image=”16289″ background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css_animation=”” el_class=”newmanbg”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1458144428135{padding-top: 75px !important;}”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”center” padding_bottom=”75″ css_animation=””][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] “In a strange city when we have no map…” [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]The Oratorian Blessed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17601,"parent":15854,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full_width.php","meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8brX6-4e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16249"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17517,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16249\/revisions\/17517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}