Opportunities for Culture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Opportunities for CultureIn the common acceptance of the word, culture stands for education, travel, leisure, and not indirectly, wealth, - exclusively for outward adorning and for earth's favored few Of af¿uence. In the broader meaning, cul ture stands for the development of all the faculties and gifts of the individual, independent of the manner in which it is brought about. True culture recognizes that our life has a spiritual interpretation, and sees the inter relation Of the spiritual to the material. Often the things that count for culture in the usual rendering of the word are wholly lacking in the acquirement of cul ture in its deeper Significance. All the various shades of meaning given the term, when Sifted down must stand for one of two things, real and artificial culture. The artificial leads into a labyrinth of perplexities. It is the real we have to do with.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.