Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-04-18
CONSERVATISM OF CULTURE

Editor Gate. OF the Plains Baptis, prints in hrs
current issue an excellent and thoughtful editorial
on culture. which Is worthy OF wide reproduction
and wider reading The writer asserts that oul.
iure mus, be conservative in order to reach highest
form. and urges hi. viewpoint IN the following
words
Education that does not lead TO the most re-
fined culture is disappointing. and ignorance that
flaun,s itself in the face Of truth and contends with
insolenoe for self-eyident error Is disgusting. An
educated fool as we'll as an gnoramus are both the
product Of an abnormal development, OF the mind
the one lacks coordination and the other lacks
information.
Culture does not try to in,imdate by making
invdous comparisons for the man Of culture has
proper regard for the feeling, Of Others happen
to know a few men who have been TO college and
Travelled a bit and who on these accounts have
come to look upon the plain, average man as a
fool Such collegisns and such globe trot,ers arc
not in the class OF the good. average farmer who
,iIls the soil and breathes the aroma Of the new
mown hay in the summer and makes honest pro
VISION for his family a silk hat, irock coat. a
standing collar fancy vest. striped trousers. tan
shoes. a gold cane. kid gloves, speokled
tie. gold trimmed glasses. rat-tailed mustache. a
bald head or a head all hair a diamond stick pin,
sgnet ring and iaultless linen does no, signify
culture. |, most generally signifies the evolution
OF a iull-grown fool.
Culture never measures manhood by the cut
of the coat nor by the color Of the neoke, but by
the penetration Of the eye, the mould OF the face
the man may wear plain clothes. blouse shirt. a
soft hat plain socks black shoes. no eye glasses
no ring no stick pin watch fob with a black
string for tie and have more culture and more
genuine manhood than a dressedup dude on his
way to Europe to stand by the tomb OF Napoleon,
Culture is not superficial; not something adj
ded from without not four years course IN col
lege; not travelling abroad; not society manner
srns not popularity not ability to excel; not liv-
ing in mansion on Fifth Avenue; not in rank OF
station of life. not in keeping up with Partisan
models not in visiting the seaside for your nerves.
not even IN tracing your family history back to
royalty or to a ohimpanzec. But culture is an evo-
luton from within OF all those regal qualities that
20 to make up royal manhood including courage,
freedom and faith.
The true man Of culture is the ripes, fruit OF all
that is best and nobest in our modern civilization.
And regcnerated culture is the finished work OF
grace and the crowning work OF God Napoleon
was great bu, brutal; Alexander conquered the
world but had no self control; Caesar subdued
Gaul, bu, was hated; Queen Elizabeth lived for
pleasure and died hopeless; Cleopatra was beau
hful. but a libertinc; Croesus had millions. but is
forgotten; Richard the Third pros,tuted has pow
ers and is despiscd. On the other hand Plato was
wise. but prudent; Aristotle was reasoner but
considerable, Socrates was a philosopher but sane
Cicero was an orator and temperate, Paul was a
theologan, and most devout Christian; John
Knox was poor. and yet made Europe tremble;
Gladstone was the greatest statesman in Parlla-
ment and yet found time to visit the poor the
outcasi and the sick Spurgeon the mightiest
preacher of modern times and yet approachabe.
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