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 »
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constant...inople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded. Man helps himself by larger generalizations. The... lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body o...r moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »