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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