 | Inga Bryden - Arts, English - 1998 - 176 pages
...itself, freely,—nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality The great men of culture...knowledge, the best ideas of their time; who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive;... | |
 | Nicholas B. Dirks - Social Science - 1998 - 328 pages
...uses them itself, freely."7 Culture was thus, for Arnold, a "social idea": "The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture...carrying from one end of society to the other, the best of knowledge, the best ideas of their time."8 These men of culture must strip the discourse of culture... | |
 | Antony H. Harrison - History - 1998 - 212 pages
...Arnold's premier social idea, namely, that "the men of culture are the true apostles of equality . . . those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making...the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time," that is, for "humanising" knowledge (5:113). It comes, then, as no surprise that early in his essay... | |
 | Edward Alexander - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 312 pages
...and light — This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality - . - those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making...the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time." Arnold's words of 1869 are a wonderfully precise definition of Howe's argument in the sixties for the... | |
 | Wendy Freedman Katkin, Ned C. Landsman, Andrea Tyree - Social Science - 1998 - 296 pages
...best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere." The great men of culture carry, "from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time,"120 with a distinct focus on the contemporary context. It is noteworthy that for twentieth-century... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 502 pages
...itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture...knowledge, the best ideas of their time; who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive;... | |
 | Robert Phillipson - Foreign Language Study - 1992 - 382 pages
...beauty', and with ELT missionaries as the twentieth century version of the great men of culture, who are 'those who have had a passion for diffusing, for...the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time' (ibid.). To describe English as a 'second' language in such contexts is a gross misnomer, at least... | |
 | Jonathan Rose - History - 2001 - 548 pages
...nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea, and the men of culture are the true aposdes of equality. The great men of culture are those who...knowledge, the best ideas of their time; who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive;... | |
 | James Van Horn Melton - History - 2001 - 302 pages
...allgemeinen Bildung der Nation," in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Werke, Abt. 2, Bd. 42 (Weimar, 1907), 401. a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...knowledge, the best ideas of their time; who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive;... | |
 | Philip Alphonse Massolin - Philosophy - 2001 - 388 pages
...for spreading sweetness and light. 'The great men of culture,' Arnold explained, were 'those who have a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...one end of society to the other, the best knowledge of their time ... to humanize it, to make it efficient outside the clique of the cultivated and learned,... | |
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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... 
