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The proud old imperial city of Nuremberg had gathered within its battlemented walls a multitude of men who were distinguished not only for their commercial enterprise and wealth, but many of whom were the exponents of the literary and artistic culture of the time.
Finally in the far south, in the peninsula of Lower California, the tribes were "probably the lowest in culture of any Indians in North America, for their inhospitable environment which made them wanderers, was unfavorable to the foundation of government even of the rude and unstable kind found elsewhere."
It will not suffice to delegate the job to money, or to persons chosen for that purpose; we must do it ourselves make it one of the main occupations of our lives. Riches and culture are fine things, but making good out of evil is better. Its rewards may not be so immediate or so visible, but they are real and permanent.
The culture I have inherited, the political ideals I live by, the literature which is my own, most of all the language that I speak, are far more important than the ultimate race or races I stem from, obviously more important, since in thousands of good Americans it is impossible to determine what races have gone to their making.
In the mere loveliness of the materials employed there are latent elements of culture. Nor is this all.
The higher instruction in Greek and in the sciences of Greek culture remained thenceforth recognized as an essential part of Italian training. Latin Instruction Public Readings of Classical Works But by its side there sprang up also a higher Latin instruction. These were the first steps towards a higher Latin instruction, but they did not as yet form such an instruction itself.
Yet it may be is it not almost certain? that the youth has had the training which will give him a wider outlook than his father ever had, and will make him a broader man. In our grandfathers' days, a man of reasonable culture could come approximately near to knowing all that then was known and worth the knowing.
Many men of note, who had an influence on Roman culture, were libertini, such as Livius Andronicus and Caecilius the poets; Terence, Publilius Syrus, whose acquaintance we made in the last chapter; Tiro and Alexis, and rather later Verrius Flaccus, one of the most learned men who ever wrote in Latin.
He is prophetic of what the stage will some day be, and what we can see it here and there preparing to become. In all the welter of the dramatic conditions of the moment there emerges one fact, that of the growing importance of the stage as a vehicle for what one may term general culture.
But it is more natural to look for the unwavering confidence which knows no questionings among persons of restricted outlook, who have been brought into contact with but one set of opinions. It is characteristic of the child, of the uncultivated classes in all communities, of whole communities primitive in their culture and relatively unenlightened.
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