There developed then a civilization and an intellectual culture far superior to those of the barbarous Christian refugees in the Asturias, where they led a rude and coarse life which but seasoned them for future struggles.

" Neither man quite understood the power of that mental culture which Johnnie was assimilating so avidly.

The rich human and social material of the German Statestheir literary, artistic, and scientific culture, their philosophy, their learningclustered curiously enough round the hard and military nucleus of the North.

There developed then a civilization and an intellectual culture far superior to those of the barbarous Christian refugees in the Asturias, where they led a rude and coarse life which but seasoned them for future struggles.

Philosophy and mathematics seem to have been allied with the worship of art among the same men, and it is difficult to say which more distinguished them,aesthetic culture or power of abstruse reasoning.

If this is an example of too severe application to toil, it shows at the same time a devotion to spiritual culture in the highest degree commendable.

So far he would, in that condition of the Roman culture and feeling, have been less acceptable to the public; but, on the other hand, he would have compensated this disadvantage by much more of natural and Demosthenic fervour.

But in the ancient world Greek culture spread most rapidly after the fall of the Greek Empire; Japan in our own time adopted Western culture more readily as an independent nation than she would have done as a dependency of Russia or France; and India is perhaps more likely to-day to learn from Japan than from England.

What we may hope for at most is an improvement in the æsthetic tastes of the Catholic public which comes from freer and healthier surroundings, from saner ideas and wider opportunities of education and liberal culture.

Early in the summer Mrs. Aurelia Potts had resumed her activities in behalf of our broader culture, whereupon our people murmured promptly at Solon Denney; for him did Little Arcady still hold to account for the infliction of this relentless evangel.

Thus the beet became an object of the most careful culture; and many experiments went to prove that in this respect the old world was independent of the new.

The second phase of mediaeval rhetoric is characteristic of a geographical position more remote from the center of classical culture.

Nor was he a man of extensive culture or attainments.

As to specifically religious culture, everything fosters the spirit out of which true religion grows.

But a human body is a very difficult thing to dispose of, especially to a person of so little scientific culture as myself.

On Eckermann's doubting "whether there is a gain for pure culture in Byron's work," Goethe conclusively replies, "There I must contradict you.

But there are many admirable things in this little volume, which is evidently the work of a person of refined artistic culture and clear intelligence.

In examining these survivals of primitive culture we are confronted with some of the most elaborate problems of primeval philosophy, many of which are not only highly complicated, but have given rise to various conjectures.

5 The eight principal prehistoric cultures

Recently, a culture of mound-dwellers in Eastern China has been discovered, and a southern Chinese culture of people with impressed or stamped pottery.

(b) The northern culture existed to the west of that culture, in the region of the present Chinese province of Shansi and in the province of Jehol in Inner Mongolia.

Arising as they do in the course of, and in connection with, the general advance in contemporary culture, they are in close alliance with the spirit of their agein other words, just those opinions which happen to be prevalent at the time.

But there are many admirable things in this little volume, which is evidently the work of a person of refined artistic culture and clear intelligence.

Her deep piety, united with wide reach of mind and varied culture, made her admirably qualified to be the depositary of the ardent thoughts and aspirations of his boyhood; and, as he grew up, he found a second mother in his elder sister, Matilda, who became the wife of Sir John Maxwell, of Pollok.

The tradition of the older classic culture was first revived for England in his quotations of Plato and Aristotle, of Seneca and Cicero, of Lucretius and Ovid.