Index
Concepts
The words the library has stopped to define. Each entry leads to the passage that coined it and to every passage that uses it.
All concepts
- culture
Activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.
- inert ideas
Ideas received into the mind without being utilised, tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
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- specialism
Study pursued far enough into one subject to give an eye for the whole chessboard — the condition of style, and the route back to culture.
- style
The æsthetic sense for the direct attainment of a foreseen end, simply and without waste — the ultimate morality of mind.