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    What Is Your Culture to Me?
    What Is Your Culture to Me?
    What Is Your Culture to Me?
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    What Is Your Culture to Me?

    By Charles Dudley Warner

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: What is Your Culture to Me

      Author: Charles Dudley Warner

      Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #3119]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT IS YOUR CULTURE TO ME ***

      Produced by David Widger

      WHAT IS YOUR CULTURE TO ME?

      By Charles Dudley Warner

         Delivered before the Alumni of Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.,

         Wednesday, June 26, 1872

      Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. I remember the flattering invitation—it is the classic tag that clings to the graduate long after he has forgotten the gender of the nouns that end in 'um—orator proximus', the grateful voice said, 'ascendat, videlicet,' and so forth. To be proclaimed an orator, and an ascending orator, in such a sonorous tongue, in the face of a world waiting for orators, stirred one's blood like the herald's trumpet when the lists are thrown open. Alas! for most of us, who crowded so eagerly into the arena, it was the last appearance as orators on any stage.

      The facility of the world for swallowing up orators, and company after company of educated young men, has been remarked. But it is almost incredible to me now that the class of 1851, with its classic sympathies and its many revolutionary ideas, disappeared in the flood of the world so soon and so silently, causing scarcely a ripple in the smoothly flowing stream. I suppose the phenomenon has been repeated for twenty years. Do the young gentlemen at Hamilton, I wonder, still carry on their ordinary conversation in the Latin tongue, and their familiar vacation correspondence in the language of Aristophanes? I hope so. I hope they are more proficient in such exercises than the young gentlemen of twenty years ago were, for I have still great faith in a culture that is so far from any sordid aspirations as to approach the ideal; although the young graduate is not long in learning that there is an indifference in the public mind with regard to the first aorist that amounts nearly to apathy, and that millions of his fellow-creatures will probably live and die without the consolations of the second aorist. It is a melancholy fact that, after a thousand years of missionary effort, the vast majority of civilized men do not know that gerunds are found only in the singular number.

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