I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Like readily consorts with like.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?