Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the viol...ence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, ...as usual, a preponderance of children's toys,--dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponder...ance in method in every other branch of study.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »