goes through the world taking note
of all that passes under his eyes, and
collects a great mass of information,
which is in no sense incorporated
into his own mind, but remains a
definite territory outside his own
nature, which he has annexed. A
man of receptive mind and heart, on
the other hand, meditating on what
he sees, and getting at its meaning
by the divining-rod of the imagina-
tion, discovers the law behind the
phenomena, the truth behind the
fact, the vital force which flows
through all things, and gives them
their significance. The first man
gains information; the second gains
culture. The pedant pours out an
endless succession of facts with a
monotonous uniformity of emphasis,
and exhausts while he instructs; the
man of culture gives us a few facts,

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