speare, and Goethe, consciously or
unconsciously, chose those forms
of expression which are specially
adapted to represent and illustrate
life in action; it is for this reason,
among others, that these writers
must always play so great a part
in the work of educating the race.
Culture is, above all things, real and
vital; knowledge may deal with
abstractions and unrelated bits of
fact, but culture must always fasten
upon those things which are signi-
ficant in a spiritual order. It has
to do with the knowledge which
may become incorporate in a man's
nature, and with that knowledge es-
pecially which has come to human-
ity through action. It is this deeper
knowledge which holds a lighted torch
aloft in the deepest recesses of the
soul, or over those abysses of possi-

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