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 and the distinguishing characteristic of Culture is the equipoise of Truth, which, resists what the poet calls the ‘falsehood of extremes’. The goal of Culture is that emancipation from the bondage of self-interest whereby every right is instinctively transformed into a duty, as in unimpaired physical life food is automatically transmuted into energy. Let rights be received as a trust and duties be accepted as a call. Then their connascent relationship in man’s moral life will become manifest- Then it will be perceived that even by a divine ordinance wide-spraad respect waits on unflincbing self- control, and liberal privileges are invariably yoked with exacting obligations. Verily, unto whom much is given, of him much shall be required.

Thus we are brought back to the thought that for being a liberal ‘pensioner on the past’, every educated person must be 'indentured ’ as a servant of the future. This, too, is an illustration of industry claiming ‘an interest in its own fruits’. Our position places each one of us under a triple