Mathew Arnold
has given two meanings to curiosity. One as an English-man describes that it
may be a light and frivolous activity of the mind; and the other according to
the continent, he has defined curiosity as a liberal and intelligent eagerness
and enthusiasm about the things of the mind.
It is a desire
which springs and arises from the things; existed in the mind. It is a desire
or real and scientific passion to know the things as they are. In this respect,
we can mot say that curiosity is the motive of culture. But it can be
dogmatized that rightly channeled and guided curiosity leads us to real culture
as the French political philosopher Montesquieu remarks “the first motive which
ought to impel us to study is the desire to augment the excellence of our
nature and to render an intelligent being yet more intelligent”.
This scientific
passion in not all; but there is also a social aspect of culture that springs
from the love of neighbor and from the desire to remove human error and
diminish and decrease its misery.
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