ABSTRACT
This chapter explores three great subjects on which Human Reason employs itself' Cardinal John Henry Newman said in his lectures on University Teaching, delivered in 1852 'God, Nature and Man: and theology being put aside the physical and social worlds remains. It is plain from these words that, like Kant, Newman regarded nature as the realm of necessity, society as the domain of freedom. Newman's social conception becomes particularly obvious when he sets about the solution of a concrete problem of history. This clear-cut social theory of historical reality Newman based on, and supported by, a definite psychological doctrine, a doctrine which lays the emphasis on the necessarily narrow limitation of every individual consciousness. Censure is the natural tone of one man in a case where praise is the natural tone of another; the very same character or action inspires one mind with enthusiasm, and another with contempt.
