culture, but it is also one of its finest
results; it registers a high degree of
advancement. For the man who has
passed beyond the prejudices, mis-
conceptions, and narrowness of pro-
vincialism has gone far on the road
to self-education. He has made as
marked an advance on the position of
the great mass of his contemporaries
as that position is an advance on the
earlier stages of barbarism. The bar-
barian lives only in his tribe; the
civilised man, in the exact degree in
which he is civilised, lives with hu-
manity. Books are among the rich-
est resources against narrowing local
influences; they are the ripest exposi-
tions of the world-spirit. To know
the typical books of the race is to be in
touch with those elements of thought
and experience which are shared by
men of all countries. Without a

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