the individual life through thought,
feeling, and action, -- an aim often
misunderstood, but which, seen on
all sides, is certainly the very highest
disclosed to the human spirit. And
the method of attaining this result
was the process, also often and widely
misunderstood, of culture. This
word carries with it the implication
of natural, vital growth, but it has
been confused with an artificial, me-
chanical process, supposed to be
practised as a kind of esoteric cult
by a small group of people who hold
themselves apart from common
human experiences and fellowships.
Mr. Symonds, concerning whose
representative character as a man of
culture there is no difference of opin-
ion, said that he had read with some
care the newspaper accounts of his
"culture," and that, so far as he

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