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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Page 7 - confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it, — motives eminently such as are called social, — come in as part of the grounds of culture, and the main and pre-eminent part. Culture is then ^properly described not as having
Page 35 - Then Satan answered the Lord and said : * Doth Job fear God for nought 1 ' " Franklin makes this : " Does your Majesty imagine that Job's good conduct is the effect of mere personal attachment and affection
Page 119 - save her followers from self-dissatisfaction and ennui, the severe words of the apostle came bracingly and refreshingly : " Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." Through age after age and generation after generation, our race, or all that part of our race which was most living and progressive, was baptized into a death¿
Page 85 - if we may so call them,—persons who are mainly led, not by their class ^spirit, but by a general humane .spirit, by the love of human perfection ; and that this number is capable of being diminished or augmented, I mean, the number of those who will succeed in developing this happy instinct will be greater
Page 7 - This is the true ground to assign for the genuine scientific passion, however manifested, and for culture, viewed simply as a fruit of this passion ; and it is a worthy ground, even though we let the term curiosity stand to describe it. But there is of culture another view, in which not solely
Page 16 - Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice ; look at them attentively ; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which
Page 6 - laudable. Nay, and the very desire to see things as they are implies a balance and regulation of mind which is not often attained without fruitful effort, and which is the very opposite of the blind and diseased impulse of mind which is what we mean to blame when we blame curiosity. Montesquieu,
Page 15 - Every one must have observed the strange language current during the late discussions as to the possible failures of our supplies of coal Our coal, thousands of people were saying, is the real basis of our national greatness; if our coal runs short, there is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness
Page 11 - coincides with religion. ^ And because men are all members of one great whole, and the sympathy which is in human nature will not allow one member to be indifferent to the rest or to have a perfect welfare independent of the rest, the expansion of our humanity, to suit the idea of perfection which culture forms, must be a general/^
Page 11 - our animality. It places it in the ever-increasing efficacy and in the general harmonious expansion of those gifts of thought and feeling, which make the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature. As I have said on a former occasion : "It is in making endless additions