Excerpt from Ethical Addresses: Tenth Series; Lectures Given Before the American Ethical Societies MY subject this evening will be Ethics and Culture. The meaning of the former of these terms is sufficiently clear; that of the latter is uncertain. I shall endeavor to bring its proper meaning to light and to Show its decisive bearing on the whole conduct of life. The marks of cul ture as commonly understood are three: literary taste, aesthetic sensibility, and fine manners. One who is famil iar with the best literature, displays a discriminating appreciation of the products of art, and uses with ease and fluency the forms and phrases of polite society, is said to be cultured. And since these accomplishments in their ensemble reach their fairest development in an at mosphere of leisure, and since leisure is, as a rule, the privilege of the wealthy, a very intimate connection has thus been established in the popular mind between wealth and culture; so intimate, indeed, that, judging from the way the two words are used together, one might be led to suppose that culture cannot exist without wealth. The rich, those favored children of fortune, enjoy a certain external luxury, as fine houses, fine furniture, fine equip ages, fine apparel. They are also able to indulge in a cer tain intellectual and aesthetic luxury, in fine art, fine liter. 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.