Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture." in the context of "Georges Duhamel, In Defense of Letters (1937), E. Bozman, trans. (1939), p. 22" to mean that wisdom is timeless.