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American Culture The capital defect in the culture of These States is the lack of a civilized aristoc- racy , secure in its position , animated by an intelligent curiosity , skeptical of all facile generalizations , superior to the ...
American Culture The capital defect in the culture of These States is the lack of a civilized aristoc- racy , secure in its position , animated by an intelligent curiosity , skeptical of all facile generalizations , superior to the ...
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Parrington's characteristic weakness as a historian is suggested by his title , for the culture of a nation is not truly figured in the image of the current . A culture is not a flow , nor even a confluence ; the form of its existence ...
Parrington's characteristic weakness as a historian is suggested by his title , for the culture of a nation is not truly figured in the image of the current . A culture is not a flow , nor even a confluence ; the form of its existence ...
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All the great poets become the material of what we popularly call culture ; we study them to acquire it . It is clear that Ad- dison was more cultivated than Shake- speare ; nevertheless Shakespeare is a finer source of culture than ...
All the great poets become the material of what we popularly call culture ; we study them to acquire it . It is clear that Ad- dison was more cultivated than Shake- speare ; nevertheless Shakespeare is a finer source of culture than ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes 18091894 | 5 |
Washington Irving 17831859 | 16 |
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