could gather, his newspaper critics
held the opinion that culture is a
kind of knapsack which a man straps
on his back, and in which he places a
vast amount of information, gathered,
more or less at random, in all parts
of the world. There was, of course,
a touch of humour in Mr. Symonds's
description of the newspaper concep-
tion of culture; but it is certainly
true that culture has been regarded
by a great many people either as a
kind of intellectual refinement, so
highly specialised as to verge on fas-
tidiousness, or as a large accumula-
tion of miscellaneous information.

Now, the process of culture is
an unfolding and enrichment of the
human spirit by conforming to the
laws of its own growth; and the re-
sult is a broad, rich, free human life.
Culture is never quantity, it is al-

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