In this major contribution to the intellectual history of Cambridge
University, Dr Garland takes as her main theme the rise of a
specific educational ideal in early Victorian Cambridge, how it
enjoyed a moment of triumph, and then how it fell under the impact
of a new set of challenges. The story revolves around the careers
of a group of 'conservative reformers', led by the Trinity dons
Whewell and Sedgwick. They were the self-designated providers of a
refurbished version of traditional Cambridge values in the new
environment of a rapidly industrializing England, and took as their
ideal a general unified core of knowledge based upon mathematics,
classics and moral philosophy. They wished to retain this general
structure because they believed it corresponded to the structure of
the human mind and its mental faculties. For them, belief in the
harmony of science and religion was part and parcel of their
basically Broad Church religious views.
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