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Faithful Intellect

Samuel S. Nelles and Victoria University

by (author) Neil Semple

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2005
Category
Higher
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773527591
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572171
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $95.00

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In 1850, Samuel Nelles, a well-educated Methodist minister, was selected to resuscitate the debt-ridden and declining Victoria University. As principal, and later as president and chancellor, he fought against shortsighted government educational policies while making the school into one of the premier universities in Canada. A true academic, Nelles believed in the importance of testing assumed laws, dogmas, and creeds. However his pursuit of intellectual inquiry was always guided by a rational faith in God, as well as the expectation of the future greatness and goodness of humanity. "Faithful Intellect" expands the reader's understanding of many of the key intellectual, religious, and political concerns of nineteenth-century English Canada while providing an essential contribution to the study of Canada’s system of higher education.

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