Culture is the Love and Study of Perfection

The purpose of culture is to make the man perfect and that perfection springs from the scientific passion for pure knowledge and the moral and social passion for doing good. When these two passions, passions for pure knowledge and passion for doing good are combined, they create the inward peace and satisfaction and suppress the animality and draw and draw nearer to complete spiritual perfection.

Culture is connected with the idea of sweetness and light and a man of culture is molded and shaped by both religion and poetry. Religion perfects the man on the moral side and poetry is an idea of beauty which beatifies the nature of a man and makes it perfect on all its sides. 

Though the desire in man for perfection springs from religion and the religion is as Mathew Arnold calls it, "the voice of the deepest human experience". Culture is growing and becoming a general expansion towards perfection so the motive and sanction of religion also obligation to man to promote the kingdom of God, yet the religion is not sufficient for a man to achieve the perfection.

As religion is the source of development in a man similarly, poetry is the essence of social development which excites the love and sympathy in a man. It enriches the inner feelings and the passion for doing well. It makes us understand what is beautiful and graceful in things and thoughts as well as in life.