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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 147, 21 June 1918, Page 2

So much confusion swms still to prevail about the difTerenee between Culture and the German war cry. Kultur. that it might bp useful to dispel it by an explanation, says a writer in a London paper. We are prone to answer the enemy boast about Kultur by quoting Nietzsche's hackneyed charge that Germany has destroyed it wherever she has extended her rule. But Nietzsche's Culture was not the Prussian war-sub-stitute, Kultur. The philosopher used the word and its meaning with which Matthew Arnold familiarised this country—the "Cnltus" of the Romans. Kultur merely signifies technical education —the anti-classical curriculum serviceable in the ungentle art of "getting on in the world."' It yen indulge in an after-thratre supper, whether at homo or in a city mstaurant. make Hancock's "Xu-Bcor" its appetising accompaniment.— (Ad.)