United States or Bangladesh ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
While aware that much can be said even in behalf of all this, we perceive that we have not now to consider the question of what is demanded to serve a half-starved and barbarous nation, or set of nations, but what is most applicable, most pertinent, for numerous congeries of conventional, over-corpulent societies, already becoming stifled and rotten with flatulent, infidelistic literature, and polite conformity and art.
Modern society, in its largest vein, is essentially intellectual, infidelistic secretly admires, and depends most on, pure compulsion or science, its rule and sovereignty is, in short, in "cultivated" quarters, deeply Napoleonic. "Friendship," said Bonaparte, in one of his lightning-flashes of candid garrulity, "Friendship is but a name. I love no one not even my brothers; Joseph perhaps a little.
Whitman decries culture only so far as it cuts a man off from his fellows, clips away or effaces the sweet, native, healthy parts of him, and begets a bloodless, superstitious, infidelistic class. "The best culture," he says, "will always be that of the manly and courageous instincts and loving perceptions, and of self-respect."
Word Of The Day