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The university, said the philosopher, Cardinal Newman, over a hundred years ago, is “the high protecting power of all knowledge and science, of fact and of principle, of inquiry and discovery, of experiment and speculation; it maps out the territory of the intellect, and sees that there is neither encroachment nor surrender on any side.”
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Williams, M. (1986). Universities. In: Society Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08845-4_46
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