 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...Promoting Christian Knowledge should not suffer to remain out of print or out of currency. To pass now to the matters canvassed in the following essay. The...and this alone, is the scope of the following essay. I say again here, what I have said in the pages which follow, that from the faults and weaknesses of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 354 pages
...knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we how follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining...and this alone, is the scope of the following essay. I say again here, what I have said in the pages which follow, that from the faults and weaknesses of... | |
 | 1871
...difficulties, whether speculative or practical, the one sovereign remedy of culture, and he describes this as " a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting...following them staunchly, which makes up for the mischief in following them mechanically." Or, in brief, culture is " a study of perfection," that is to say,... | |
 | 1883 - 492 pages
...little fellowship in their work, though each has an important share in promoting the higher life of man. which has been thought and said in the world, and,...for the mischief of following them mechanically." But Matthew Arnold recognizes the distinct work of religion in intensifying conviction, thought, feeling.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, ^vaialy -imagiaiBg that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following thenrmechanicaDy. This, and this alone, is the scope of the following essay. And the culture we recommend... | |
 | 1901 - 844 pages
...turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habij which we now follow stanchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them stanchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically." He exhibits and illustrates... | |
 | American fiction - 1927 - 554 pages
...of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been known and thought in the world ; and through this knowledge, turning...the mischief of following them mechanically." This search after totality, which meets and tends to destroy all that is provincial and hide-bound and partial,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1897 - 422 pages
...hinder us from making our Academy, I The late Dean Milman. a The late Bishop Wilberforca. ROPERTY OF Knowledge should not suffer to remain out of print...the scope of the following essay. And the culture we recommend is, above all, an inward operation. But we are often supposed, when we criticise by the help... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1897 - 604 pages
...a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow stanchly, but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them stanchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically." The main vine may be the... | |
 | R. W. Dale - Christianity - 1899 - 416 pages
...in clanger, he thinks, of following staunchly, but mechanically, certain stock notions and habits, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following...which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.2 He wishes to assist us to turn " a stream of fresh and free thought " upon our theory... | |
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The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought... 
