Culture

A most important point made by Christopher Dawson  quoted in the  volume 5, number 4 edition of Anglican Embers:

"Culture, as its name denotes, is an artificial product. It is like a city 

that has been built up laboriously by the work of successive gener

ations, not a jungle which has grown up spontaneously by the blind 

pressure of natural forces. It is the essence of culture that it is com

municated and acquired, and although it is inherited by one gener

ation from another, it is a social not a biological inheritance, a tra

dition of learning, an accumulated capital of knowledge and a com

munity of ‘folkways’ into which the individual has to be initiated. 

Hence it is clear that culture is inseparable from education.”  

Christopher Dawson 

Anglican Embers  - Shared Treasures is the journal of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society.  You can find their web page here.