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33 in nature there is no death but that 'every winter changes to spring’? Similar is the light which Culture, the Science of the Truth, casts on all the experiences of life. It is man’s glory to be, as the Arabic phrase hae it, Ashraful-Makhlukhat—the exalted one of creation, because of his inborn power to ‘con’ the lessons of this occult science. The cultured man is thus a person endowed with a trained and developed capacity to appreciate aright the values of events and entities in relation to the whole round of existence. He possesses what Wordsworth and, after him, Newman call ‘the philosophic mind’.

The moral and social value of the man of Culture, as the efflorescence of passionless sacrifice—viraga, cannot but be rare- With stores of knowledge which he is to be ever ready to augment through participation with others, he is an abundant source of, enlightenment. With pure motive, high moral purpose and a strong sense of duty, he is an inspiring model character. With catholic spirit, courteous bearing, humane impulses and benevolent designs, he is a ‘heaven-born