![]() ![]() By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of getting on to which the alternative is a hopeless apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negative: the artificial, mechanized or brutalised control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos. ![]() ![]() Ex libris label of Edmund Neville Rolfe on the. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is. Very good in blue cloth which is browned along the edges and has some foxing. ![]() In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. Our point of departure is more real to us than our destination and the destination is likely to present a very different picture when arrived at, from the vaguer image formed in imagination. The word culture, in recent years, has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point away from, rather than towards, something definite. tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. ![]()
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