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April. 1926
AMERICAN CIN E M AT O GR APHER
Thirteen
Herbert E. Bradley
says —
^ mi will probably be interested to know that I carried one of your Universal Cameras with Turret Front, on my expedition around the world in 1924 and 1925. We took 10,000 feet of film from America with which to take pictures in Africa, and picked up 5,000 feet additional in Bombay for work in India, Sumatra, Java and Indo-China.
In Africa where we were the first expedition through the cannibal country west of Lake Edward, the camera was carried on the heads of porters for a period of about four months.
Out of the 15,000 feet of film, we had less than 400 feet of poor film which 1 considered remarkable record, in view of the fact that we had no special photographer, and the pictures were taken by Professor Scott of the University of Chicago and myself. Mr. Scott had never had any experience, and my own had been very limited. The camera gave us entire sa isfaction and we were well pleased with its work. It stood up well under hard usage, rough work and e /erj sort of weather.
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Culture and the
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sense may be regarded as the essence of this same natural religion, its fruit being the higher or spiritual life. This spiritual life known as culture embraces the three-fold devotion to Beauty, Goodness and Truth which in reality are but some of the various names denoting the essence of the Supreme Deity. From this consideration we are led to the true meaning of the term, "Civilization," which expresses the same three-fold religion shown on a larger scale in the characters, institutions and customs of nations.
Where this or some such similar view of religion is lost sight of as it is frequent in many of the higher secular institutions of learning, education or university training, call it what you will, spells merely a prodigious intellectual activity accompanied by moral decay. Such decay is evidenced in the abnormalities that we find in the art, literature and drama of today, which by the way we are asked to regard as emanations of culture, whereas in reality our admiration is being challenged in order that we shall fall into ecstasy at beholding a paste pearl in a pig's snout.
The Philosopher's Angle
Mr. Sills' chief faux pas would seem to the writer to
be in confounding culture with education in using what the philosophers call the "'post hoc ergo propter hoc" style of argument. In other words, he insinuates that culture exists by reason of a college or university training whereas it may and does exist in spite of it. Culture, not indeed in its fulness as the writer has endeav'ored to portray it above, but in its simple or what may be termed in its embryonic state, is an innate quality.
Where Culture Abides
It may be present in the soul of the peasant as well as in that of the prince or of the college student and can be de
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