the measure of his culture. One may
be well-trained and carefully disci-
plined, and yet have no share in this
organised life of the race; but no one
can possess real culture who has not,
according to his ability, entered into
it by making it a part of himself. It
is by contact with these great ideas
that the individual mind puts itself in
touch with the universal mind and in-
definitely expands and enriches itself.

Culture rests on ideas rather than
on knowledge; its distinctive use of
knowledge is to gain material for ideas.
For this reason the "Iliad" and
"Odyssey" are of more importance
than Thucydides and Curtius. For
Homer was not only in a very im-
portant sense the historian of his race;
he was, above all, the expositor of its
ideas. There is involved in the very
structure of the Greek epics the fun-

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