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is cn/rrKK a sham? -* _ - * * • * % ' »A jjre.it many people whose manner* an* irreproachable and whose* livw are correct have had frcqitevtfoccasion to lb?l as a prominentpreacher did hist, Siuul: v when ho said that enlture at. times seemed asham. Few words have ever lost*» f * ♦ •their original meaning a* complete * ly as this word culture” has donein lute yearn. Once, it signified, gcr*j cording to the dictionary, ‘•enlightenment and discipline acquired bymental training,’’but now it meansmerely a .smattering of things of no vital consequence to any one.— Modern culture claims that it refine* men and women. If it can# • • • i f• • .prove that, it doe* this it should be held in high esteem; hut exjierienri*.proven that, ninety-nine one-hn*-dredth* of what pauses for refinement is the thinnest sort of polish, a mere gloss that can be applied at •horfnotiee to ain* coarse, rouirh^ ' . -- v-or rotten material without anyeffect whatever upon texture. Oil*hire is genuine only no far an• # • ^something is cultivated. A man whose manner to hi* intimate* h*c*wirtfebm* am! to other* rude in not9 *. ' . • 1 - •a cultnred man; he i» merelva bo«»r*. f • r •«. 4r i v. . ,who is .smart enough to counterfeit# . •• • «* —true courtesy. In thr. be*t of men cult ure i* only- partial; in one fbo elfftrt i.i confttied to. manners; ih another to the affections; mune de-'* . 1 I •. • ' ‘4 , J • ’ . .rote most attention to their intellect, and a few men specially cultivate their.moral sentiments. Any one of these, ha* a* good a right a* anyother to bw considered cultured- A% 1 ' v */ '•e.ircftil training of taste result.* in cultureqt of nothingcorrect taste i* §nite a* often -found in ’discourteous, dishonesty selfish and immoral {mrson* a* in* U WwS idSI A* *3r\M^9 * 1 * _v »fany' others. All the dres*, upholder v, music, pictures, bric-a-bracahd blue China in the world cannot impart eniture to any qualities but those are attracted by these tilling*, arid the literary sugar plum* that pretend To be the wdiolc of literature are equally ineffective out side of their own particular lines. The sooner the present generation realizes this the sooner a most, disagreeable class of hypocrites will pass away, (hiltnre, to k thorough, must begin at the bottom, and the foundation of all human improvement is personal charae-ter.—N. k. IleraM-S
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Accomac Peninsula Enterprise
Accomac, Virginia, US
Thu, Jul 14, 1881
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