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Organized Christianity Has Always Represented Immortality As A Sort Of Common Heritage; But I Never Could See Why Spiritual Life Should Not Be Conditioned On The Same Terms As All Life, I. E., Correspondence With Environment.

If The Modern Spirit, Whatever That May Be, Is Disinclined Towards Taking The Lord's Word At Its Face Value (as I Hear Is The Case), We May Observe That Isaiah's Testimony To The Character Of The Masses Has Strong Collateral Support From Respectable Gentile Authority. Plato Lived Into The Administration Of Eubulus, When Athens Was At The Peak Of Its Jazz-and-paper Era, And He Speaks Of The Athenian Masses With All Isaiah's Fervency, Even Comparing Them To A Herd Of Ravenous Wild Beasts.

Considered Now As A Possession, One May Define Culture As The Residuum Of A Large Body Of Useless Knowledge That Has Been Well And Truly Forgotten.

Diligent As One Must Be In Learning, One Must Be As Diligent In Forgetting; Otherwise The Process Is One Of Pedantry, Not Culture.

The Business Of A Scientific School Is The Dissemination Of Useful Knowledge, And This Is A Noble Enterprise And Indispensable Withal; Society Can Not Exist Unless It Goes On.