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Excerpt from The Top of the Wine-Jar: Being Selections in Prose and Verse From the Writings of Frederic Rowland Marvin
Perhaps it is not a matter of surprise, al though it is of regret, that the sense of cul ture should as yet have gained so slight a hold upon the life and thought of our Amer ican people. The lack of it is presumably one of the unfortunate conditions that seem innate in the fretful fever of freedom that surges through the restless, shifting, unsettled and untraditional spirit of our day. In such a spirit the contemplative mood, which is so at variance with our hurried, over-wrought living, cannot survive; yet no culture or philosophy of life worthy of the name can be attained with out from time to time an introspective atti tude of mind and heart. Our political think ing is done for most of us by newspaper editors, our religious thinking by sensational preach ers; our ethical and cultural thinking could be stimulated by our essay writers if we would give them a fair chance. We are, however, what might be called a one-handed country. There can, for instance, be counted on the fingers of one hand the American periodicals that give competent, scholarly book reviews. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
