Y cultivated. There have been

famous scholars who have remained crude, unripe,
inharmonious in their intellectual life, and there have been men of small scholarship who have found all the fruits of culture.
The man of culture is he who has so absorbed what he knows that it is part
of himself. His knowledge has not only enriched specific faculties, it has enriched him; his entire nature

has come to ripe and sound maturity. This personal enrichment is

the very highest and finest result
of intimacy with books;
compared with it the instruction, information, refreshment,
and entertainment which books afford are of secondary importance. The great
service they render us--the greatest service that can be rendered

us--is the enlargement, enrichment, and unfolding of ourselves;
they nourish and develop that mysterious personality which lies behind
all thought, feeling, and
action; that central force withi n us which feeds the specific activities through which we give out ourselves to the world, and, in giving, find and recover ourselves. Chapter II. Time and Place. To get at the heart of Shakespeare's
plays, and to secure for ourselves the material and the development of culture which are contained

in them, is not the work of a day or of