denied him. The man of culture, it
is true, is not always a man of creative
power; but he is never devoid of that
kind of creative quality which trans-
forms everything he receives into
something personal and individual.
And the more deeply one studies the
work of the great artists, the more
distinctly does he see the immense
place which culture in the vital, as
contrasted with the academic, sense
held in their lives, and the great part
it played in their productive activity.
Dante, Goethe, Tennyson, Browning,
Lowell, were men possessed in rare
degree of culture of both kinds; but
Shakespeare and Burns were equally
men of culture. They shared in the
possession of this faculty of making
all they saw and knew a part of them-
selves. Between culture of this qual-
ity and the creative power there is

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