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Through the manifold of the determinations and objects that engage his interest, theoretical culture develops — not only a manifold of representations and items of knowledge, but also a mobility and quickness of representing, and of passing over from one representation to another, the grasping of complicated and general relations, and so on — the cultivation of the understanding in general, and thereby also of language. — Practical culture, through labour, consists in the need, engendering itself, and the habit, in general, of occupation; further, in the limitation of one’s activity, in part according to the nature of the material, but in part, and chiefly, according to the arbitrary will of others; and in a habit, acquired through this discipline, of objective activity and of universally valid skills.

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    Eduard Gans (Additions)

    The barbarian is lazy and is distinguished from the cultivated person by the fact that he broods dully to himself, for practical culture consists precisely in habituation and in the need for occupation. The unskillful man always brings forth something other than what he wants, because he is not master of his own doing, whereas the worker can be called skillful who brings forth the thing as it ought to be, and who finds no resistance in his subjective activity as against the purpose.

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