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principle, a power irreducible and original, 

 why would we not develop all parts of its 

 essential being? Science which presupposes 

 spirit and lives in its life, is herself interested 

 in a culture which will make the spirit as rich 

 and harmonious as possible. 



Today, then, as in the epoch of the Renais- 

 sance, or in the age of the Sophists and Socra- 

 tes, it remains true that man ought not to 

 lose himself in science, even the largest and the 

 best established science, but that he ought to 

 recognize that he has the right and the duty 

 to cultivate in himself humanity as such, to be 

 truly a man in the sense at once the largest and 

 the most specific of the word. We can still 

 say with Menander: 



'II9 \apUv iaO^ av6p(t)7ro^j orav avSpoiTTO^ f), 

 \ What an admirable thing is man when he is 

 truly man ! 



IV 



How shall we conceive and practice today 

 that culture of man as man, which, in spite of 

 all the changes in society, and even in spite 

 of the unheard-of progress of science, remains 



