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" Culture is the habit of mind instinct with purpose, cognizant of a tendency and connection in human achievement, able and industrious in discerning the great from the trivial. "
The Smith Alumnae Quarterly - Page 7
1913
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The Civilization of Christendom: And Other Studies

Bernard Bosanquet - 1893 - 406 pages
...spectator and dilettante ? Oh, no ! Culture is the habit of a mind instinct with purpose, cognisant of a tendency and connection in human achievement,...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial. Everything, no doubt, has a value, if CC F rightly apprehended, but to apprehend things rightly we...
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Looking Upward Day by Day

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond - 1909 - 398 pages
...man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? — MARK 8: 36 " Culture is a habit of mind instinct with purpose, cognizant of a tendency...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial. " What we need is to make our religion not an impulse, but a daily habit of soul. And through that...
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Democracy and the Overman

Charles Zueblin - 1910 - 232 pages
...sadly overspecialized. Even a self-made man may possess that culture which is described by Bosanquet as "the habit of a mind instinct with purpose, cognizant...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial." Perhaps the ablest business man Chicago has produced was its great merchant prince. Measured by the...
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The History of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: For the First Twenty ...

Mary I. Wood - 1912 - 500 pages
...you recall Professor Zueblin's glorious definition at the Boston Biennial ? "Culture is the habit of mind instinct with purpose, cognizant of a tendency...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial." Many of these clubs reporting no interest were named "Shakespeare" clubs. I have wondered if they have...
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National Floodmarks: Week by Week Observations on American Life as Seen by ...

Mark Sullivan - 1915 - 430 pages
...unfortunate connotations. Here is a masterly definition of culture by the English philosopher, BOSANQUET : The habit of a mind instinct with purpose, cognizant...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial. Twenty-seven words are enough to phrase this noble conception of a noble quality. LOOKING FORWARD OUT...
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Official Report, Issue 10

General Federation of Women's Clubs. Convention - 1910 - 564 pages
...you recall Professor Zueblin's glorious definition at the Boston Biennial? "Culture is the habit of mind instinct with purpose, cognizant of a tendency...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial." Many of these clubs reporting no interest, were named "Shakespeare" clubs. I have wondered if they...
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AAUW Journal, Volumes 4-5

American Association of University Women - 1911 - 436 pages
...activities "interesting," and to maintain to them the attitude of the spectator and the dilletante ? Oh, no! Culture is the habit of a mind instinct with purpose,...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial. Says Professor Dewey: Unless culture be ^ superficial polish, a veneer of mahogany over common wood,...
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South Dakota Alumni Quarterly, Volumes 9-12

1913 - 506 pages
...to secure him as commencement speaker. His subject was "Democratic Culture." He defined culture as the habit of a mind instinct with purpose, cognizant...industrious in discerning the great from the trivial. That culture is not an accumulation of knowledge merely, a piling up of facts; it is a habit. Accumulation...
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