"Green gave a superficial impression of reserve and even austerity, but no teacher in Oxford gathered around him, as time went on, such a band of wholehearted and enthusiastic disciples. His lectures were not easy to follow: his manner was apt to be jerky; and his style abounded in what Burke calls “nodosities.” It was a familiar gibe of those who looked on from outside the fold, that by the end of the hour he had become so contorted that he had to be untied by friendly hands. It must be admitted that, while he made a deep and indelible impression, not only upon the best intellects of the place, but upon the whole course of philosophic thought in the University then and thereafter, the less well-grounded of his neophytes began to talk a jargon or “patter” which lent itself to the ridicule of the unregenerate. Jowett looked on with a certain mild and mellow scepticism at these new departures, having himself (as I have said elsewhere) in his earlier days “déjà passé par là .” Between 1870 and 1880 Green was undoubtedly the greatest personal force in the real life of Oxford."
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H. H. Asquith, Memories and Reflections 1852–1927. Vol. I (1928), pp. 18-19
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T. H. Green
Thomas Hill Green (7 April 1836 – 26 March 1882), known as , was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the movement. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
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