Excerpt from Work and Worship: Essays on Culture and Creative Art
But as we ascend the hillside of life, our view becomes wider and takes in a greater content; and our speech becomes richer in the unspoken assumptions that we attach to words and phrases. When we come to the attempted expression of abstract truth, the approximation between idea and language is so remote that the space between can only be crossed on long bridges of commentary and exposition which rest on incalculable arches of argument and illustration. One line in Shelley's poetry has a prose annotation of twelve pages. The four Vedas that one can carry in one's pocket are inexplicable without the sixteen Upanishads that few have in their libraries; and how far these have succeeded in their purpose is seen from the stacks of Commentaries which continue to be produced even unto this day.
The word culture comes no nearer absolute expression than others. It comes from a Latin original (colere) which means two things - to till and to worship.
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