a finality both of experience and of
thought; it contains the ultimate and
the widest conception of man's nature
and life, or of the meaning and reality
of Nature, which an age or a race
reaches. It is the supreme flowering
of the genius of a race or an age. It
has, therefore, the highest educational
value. For the very highest products
of man's life in this world are his
ideas and ideals; they grow out of his
highest nature; they react on his char-
acter; they are the precious deposit of
all that he has thought, felt, suffered,
and done in word and work, in feeling
and action. The richest educational
material upon which modern men are
nourished are these ultimate conclu-
sions and convictions of the Hebrew,
the Greek, and the Roman. These
ultimate inferences, these final inter-
pretations of their own natures and of

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