When it fails to do so, the value of his own education to him is reduced by half, and many of the tastes he has cultivated are made positive sources of pain.
"To educate some to the highest degree, and leave the mass wholly uncultivated, as you did, made the gap between them almost like that between different natural species, which have no means of communication.

What could be more inhuman than this consequence of a partial enjoyment of education! Its universal and equal enjoyment leaves, indeed, the differences between men as to natural endowments as marked as in a state of nature, but the level of the lowest is vastly raised.

Brutishness is eliminated.

All have some inkling of the humanities, some appreciation of the things of the mind, and an admiration for the still higher culture they have fallen short of.

They have become capable of receiving and imparting, in various degrees, but all in some measure, the pleasures and inspirations of a refined social life.