 | Ken Starkey, Nick Tiratsoo - Business & Economics - 2007 - 13 pages
...present at the gate, take over. Arnold defines culture as the great help out of our present difficulties, 'a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting...up for the mischief of following them mechanically . . . Culture, which is the study of perfection, leads us ... to conceive of true human perfection... | |
 | Mark K. Smith, Heather Smith - Medical - 2008 - 176 pages
...relatively rare. We need to look, as Matthew Arnold wrote in his 1869 Preface to Culture and Anarchy, for: ...the best which has been thought and said in the...up for the mischief of following them mechanically. (1993, p. 190) To this end we need to read widely, to look to writers valued within different cultures... | |
 | 1973 - 424 pages
...quote Arnold's first general statement of his theme or thesis, however familiar it is (V, 233-34): The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture...the scope of the following essay. And the culture we recommend is, above all, an inward operation. Although a modern critic would not thus summarize the... | |
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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... 
