THE CULTIVATED MAN
Sir,-May I uphold the Quixotic tradition of these columns by leaping to the defence of one of your contributors? It should be immaterial that I defend him against himself. I find a similarity between "Sundowner’s" ideal of the cultivated man (Listener, March 6) and the case he mentioned recently of a woman so much in love with the artist as to ignore the work of art. His cultivated man is so much in love with culture as to disregard that which is both its source, and the spring whence it is perpetually renewed: the common man, That culture which separates a man from those who have been endowed with such vitality as to be independent of synthetic embellishments of life, is false. I cannot be dissuaded from the belief (faith, if you like) that the result of true culture is the destruc-
tion of that contempt-of the uncultivated, that mere education often engenders. One who comes in contact with "ignorance, superstition, cruelty, coarseness, stupidity and fanaticism," yet is still capable of such a self-criticism, falls well within, .the ,limits .of .any. definiti cule: Never the fe ct ef bash simplicity, : acts that prot Ak exglu him from that eategorys,.i2°. #
FORTY YEARS YOUNGER
(Auckland)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 5
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206THE CULTIVATED MAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 5
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