# What Is Your Culture to Me?

Author: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3119

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=What+Is+Your+Culture+to+Me%3F+Warner&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Twenty-one years ago in this house I heard a voice calling me to ascend the platform, and there to stand and deliver. The voice was the voice of President North; the language was an excellent imitation of that used by Cicero and Julius Caesar. I remember the flattering invitation--it is the classic tag that clings to the graduate long after he has forgotten the gender of the nouns that end in 'um--orator proximus', the grateful voice said, 'ascendat, videlicet,' and so forth. To be proclaimed an orator, and an ascending orator, in such a sonorous tongue, in the face of a world waiting for orators, stirred one's blood like the herald's trumpet when the lists are thrown open. Alas! for most...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-is-your-culture-to-me-3119/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/what-is-your-culture-to-me-3119/chapters/2/index.md)