off) a motive for developing all talents serviceable for culture, to the highest possible pitch.

As concerns the discipline of the inclinations, — for which our natural capacity in regard of our destination as an animal race is quite purposive, but which render the development of humanity very difficult, — there is manifest in respect of this second requirement for culture a purposive striving of nature to a cultivation which makes us receptive of higher purposes than nature itself can supply. We cannot strive against the preponderance of evil, which is poured out upon us by the refinement of taste pushed to idealisation, and even by the luxury of science as affording food for pride, through the insatiable n