Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And, Friendship's Garland : Being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the Late Arminius, Baron Von Thunderten-TronckhMatthew Arnold |
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... sort , and I learnt with consternation lately from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences , that he had never so madeardiof Bishop Wilson , and that he imagined imel to nort invented him . At a moment when the ...
... sort , and I learnt with consternation lately from a brilliant and distinguished votary of the natural sciences , that he had never so madeardiof Bishop Wilson , and that he imagined imel to nort invented him . At a moment when the ...
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... sort of grand stamp of generality and solemnity to this antipathy of the Nonconformists , and to dress it out as a law of human progress in the future . Now , nothing can be pleasanter than swim- ming with the stream ; and we might ...
... sort of grand stamp of generality and solemnity to this antipathy of the Nonconformists , and to dress it out as a law of human progress in the future . Now , nothing can be pleasanter than swim- ming with the stream ; and we might ...
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... sort of Philis- tine than ours , and with the pressure and false ideal of our Barbarians taken away , but left all the more to himself and to have his full swing . And as we have found that the strongest and most vital part of English ...
... sort of Philis- tine than ours , and with the pressure and false ideal of our Barbarians taken away , but left all the more to himself and to have his full swing . And as we have found that the strongest and most vital part of English ...
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... sort of habits they must fight against , ought to be made quite clear for every one to see , who may be willing to look at the matter attentively and dis- passionately . Faith in machinery is , I said , our besetting danger ; often in ...
... sort of habits they must fight against , ought to be made quite clear for every one to see , who may be willing to look at the matter attentively and dis- passionately . Faith in machinery is , I said , our besetting danger ; often in ...
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... sort of Robin Hood life under ground . For a long time , as I have said , the strong feudal habits of subordination and deference continued to tell upon the working class . The modern spirit has now almost entirely dissolved those ...
... sort of Robin Hood life under ground . For a long time , as I have said , the strong feudal habits of subordination and deference continued to tell upon the working class . The modern spirit has now almost entirely dissolved those ...
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Page 216 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Page 117 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 36 - It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Page 98 - I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?
Page 36 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Page 143 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Page 5 - Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good. As, in the first view of it, we took for its worthy motto Montesquieu's words: "To render an intelligent being yet more intelligent!
Page 10 - If culture, then, is a study of perfection, and of harmonious perfection, general perfection, and perfection which consists in becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances, — it is clear that culture, instead of being the frivolous and useless thing which Mr. Bright, and Mr. Frederic Harrison, and many other liberals are apt to call it, has a very important function to fulfil for mankind.
Page 14 - And thus culture begets a dissatisfaction which is of the highest possible value in stemming the common tide of men's thoughts in a wealthy and industrial community, and which saves the future, as one may hope, from being vulgarized, even if it cannot save the present.
Page 17 - But the idea of beauty and of a human nature perfect on all its sides, which is the dominant idea of poetry, is a true and invaluable idea, though it has not yet had the success that the idea of conquering the obvious faults of our animality, and of a human nature perfect on the moral side, — which is the dominant idea of religion, — has been enabled to have ; and it is destined, adding to itself the religious idea of a devout energy, to transform and govern the other. The best art and poetry...