self culture (self kultur)

Culture, training, or education of one's self without the aid of teachers. Self - culture is what a man may do upon himself: mending his defects, correcting his mistakes, chastening his faults, tempering his pa ions. H. Bushnell , Sermons on Living Subjects, 2d ser., p. 65. self-dangert (self-dān'jėr), n. Danger from one's self. If you could.. but disguise That which, to appear itself, must not yet be But by self -danger. Shak ., Cymbeline, iii. 4. 149.