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undue attention to the neglect of more practical studies. On the 
occasion in question he merely reiterates them; and to those who 
would urge that want of cultivation of the ancient languages and 
literature entails narrowness of thought, he replies that “ the advo- 
cates of scientific education might fairly enough retort upon the 
modern Humanists that they may be learned specialists, but that 
they possess no such sound foundation for a criticism of life as de- 
serves the name of culture. And, indeed, if we were disposed to be 
eruel, we might urge that the Humanists have brought this reproach 
upon themselves, not because they are too full of the spirit of the 
ancient Greek, but because they lack it.” Nevertheless, he after- 
wards says, he is “the last person to question the importance 
of genuine literary education, or to suppose that intellectual cul- 
ure can be complete without it. An exclusively scientific training 
will bring about a mental twist as surely as an exclusively literary 
training.” He thinks that there is no need, however, that such a 
catastrophe should happen. Instruction in English, French and 
German, such as is provided for in the Mason Scientific School, 
renders accessible “the three greatest literatures of the modern 
world,” and if an Englishman cannot get his literary culture out of * 
his Bible, his Shakespeare, his Milton, neither will the profoundest 
study of Homer and Sophocles, Virgil and Horace, give it to him.” 
These opinions are valuable as emanating from one who in his own 
person combines scientific and literary culturé of no common order. 
But what is culture? From the writings of Mr. Arnold, as well. 
from the observations of those who are generally conceded to be 
men of culture,” I infer that it has, in the opinions of such, a 
narrower range than is admitted in the dictionaries of the English 
uage. Therein we learn that culture is “the application of 
labor or other means to improve good qualities or growth or, 
Specifically, any training or discipline by which man’s moral and 
Intellectual nature is elevated; or, “the result of such training, 
: enlightenment, civilization, refinement.” Further, we learn that 
ne word culture has made its way among us from Germany 
mainly through the influence of Goethe, and that “ we speak now 
9 a9 culture, whether of a nation or individual, as a kind of col- 
ive noun for all that refers to the higher life.” 
But it appears that such definitions are too latitudinarian and 
vague, According to the special culture-worshippers, it seems that 
"be things must be done and certain other things left undone to 
ive to entry into the fold of culture. For example, above all 3 
