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Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection: it is a study of perfection.

1025 Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy. Sweetness and Light.

Ch. 1.

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred: culture has one great passion,- the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

1026

Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy. Ch. 1.
Sweetness and Light.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

1027 Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy. Ch. 1. Sweetness and Light.

It does not try to teach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to do away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, - nourished, and not bound by them.

1028 Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy. Ch. 1. Sweetness and Light.

That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. 1029

Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may. 1030 Carlyle: Essays. Richter. (Edinburgh Review. No. xci. 1827.)

The only worthy end of all learning, of all science, of all life, in fact, is that human beings should love one another better. Culture merely for culture's sake can never be anything but a sapless root, capable of producing at best a shrivelled branch.

1031 John Walter Cross: Life of George Eliot. Ch. 19. Meditation is culture.

1032 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Contarini Fleming. Pt. vii. Ch. 1.

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever the romance of history in all dynasties, the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb. 1033 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims.

Culture.

Progress of

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

1034

Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Progress of
Culture.

Culture is like wealth: it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves.

1035

Hamerton: Human Intercourse. Essay ii.
Independence.

High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

1036 Hamerton: The Intellectual Life. Pt. ix. Society and Solitude. Letter vi.

Though men of delicate taste be rare, they are easily to be distinguished in society by the soundness of their understanding, and the superiority of their faculties above the rest of mankind.

1037 Hume: Essays. XXII. Of the Standard of Taste. Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

1038

Lowell: Address, Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 8, 1886. Harvard Anniversary.

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life. 1039 Schiller Essays, Esthetical and Philosophical. Letter v.

There are few delights in any life so high and rare as the subtle and strong delight of sovereign art and poetry; there are none more pure and more sublime. To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

1040 Swinburne: Essays and Studies. L'Année Terrible.

Victor Hugo.

CUPID.

There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. 1041 Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici. Pt. ii. Sec. 9.

CURIOSITY - see Talkativeness.

The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!

1042 Coleridge: Table Talk. Additional Table Talk. Curiosity.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

1043

Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Progress of Culture.

Curiosity is a little more than another name for hope.

1044
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
1045 Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. i. Bk. i. Ch. 1.
(Benedict, Translator.)

J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth.

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure, education, genius, and example to make it govern any person.

1046 Hume: Essays. XIII. Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last, and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties.

1047

Johnson: The Rambler. No. 150.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

1048

Johnson: The Rambler. No. 103.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iii. Ch. 5.

III. Coming to

1049
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
1050 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons.
the Truth.

Curiosity is but vanity. Oftenest one wishes to know but to talk of it. Otherwise one would not go to sea if he were never to say anything about it, and for the sole pleasure of seeing, without hope of ever communicating what he has

seen.

1051

Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. iii. VI. (Wight,
Translator. Louandre edition.)

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say. 1052

Plutarch: Morals. On Talkativeness. (Shilleto,
Translator.)

They mocked thee for too much curiosity.

1053

Shakespeare: Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3.

A penny for your thought.

1054 Swift: Polite Conversation.

CUSTOM -see Precepts.

There is nothing more nearly permanent in human life than a well-established custom.

1055 Joseph Anderson: History of the Soldiers' Monument in Waterbury, Conn.

Experience is the mother of custom.

1056 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. Business.

Custom reconciles to everything.

1057

CYNICS.

Burke: On the Sublime and Beautiful.
Pt. iv. Sec. 18.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

1058 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit.

DAINTINESS.

Neat, not gaudy.
1059

D.

Charles Lamb: Letter to Wordsworth, 1806.

Leigh Hunt: Table Talk. Steeple-Chasing.

DANGER -see Caution, Superstition.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

1060

DARKNESS.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.
1061

Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea.
Pt. ii. Bk. ii. Ch. 5.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the

land.

1062

Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea.
Pt. i. Bk. v. Ch. 5.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

1063

Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. Act iv. Sc. 2.

DAWN.

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The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning softness that "brings and shuts the day,' while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

1064 James Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer. Ch. 7. There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

1065

Ruskin: Sesame and Lilies.

Prepace.

Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation, the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

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DAY -see Twilight.

Essays and Tales. Thoughts. Crystals from a Cavern. I.

The day, when the longest, steals imperceptibly away.1 1067 Pliny the Younger: Letters. Bk. ix. Letter xxxvi. (Melmoth and Bosanquet, Translators.)

DEAD, The - see Monuments, Rest, Secrecy, Sorrow, Tombs.

Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound?

1068 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

1069 Garfield: Oration. Geneva, Aug. 3, 1880. Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them. 1070 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 404.

DEATH

see Bravery, Dead, The, Death-Wounds, Life, Old Age, Reputation, Science, Sleep, Sympathy, Youth.

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.

1071 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to enter tain him is not at home.

1072

Bacon Essays. Of Death.

1 This is usually rendered, "The longest day soon comes to an end."

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