Excerpt from Incentives to Mental Culture Among Teachers
While listening to the lecturers, who have so often, in these last days, fed us with the various food of sweetly uttered knowledge, I have said to myself more than once, "What shall the man do that cometh after the king?" Nor can I doubt but that those who assigned to us speakers the order of our appearance, reverenced the oriental custom, according to which, "Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse." Or perhaps as classical scholars, they may have imitated Prometheus, who began to make man of finer clay, as it were of porcelain, but lacking materials, was compelled to eke out his work with baser matter, at first intended for composing creatures of a lower race. My own apology for trespassing at all on your attention, now you have been feasted to the full, is, that after many who were rich had cast in much money into the Jewish temple-treasury, then, and not before, there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. Yet small as may be the value of the coin I contribute, its superscription, Culture, need not shrink from a comparison with the legend on guineas, napoleons, or double eagles.
Culture is clearly one great end of our being.
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