 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 796 pages
...understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them — persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, Imt by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection ; and that this number is capable of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...understood always .to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them, — persons who are mainly led,...this happy instinct will be greater or smaller, in prdportioii both to the force of the original instinct within. them, and to the hindrance or encouragement... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 352 pages
...understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them, — persons who are mainly led,...number is capable of being diminished or augmented. — Culture and Anarchy, THE GREATEST HAPPINESS OF THE GREATEST NUMBER. THE well-being of the many... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 466 pages
...understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them, — persons who are mainly led,...who will succeed in developing this happy instinct wjlLbe. greater or smaller, in proportion both to the force of the original instinct within them, andMtp... | |
 | George Wotton - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 260 pages
...Thomas Hardy who appears here is that of one of Matthew Arnold's 'classless' intellectual 'aliens' who 'are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit'.21 As the bearer of that ideology the Thomas Hardy of The Life appears as the classless spokesman... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 364 pages
...cling to class notions even as he renames the classes and seeks for a classless class of "aliens, if we may so call them — persons who are mainly led,...general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection" (146). The very name of aliens suggests how little Arnold can imagine a democratized England much as... | |
 | Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Cornel West - Design - 1992 - 454 pages
...identities for Arnold's middle-class-skewed project: ". . . Aliens, if we may so call them-persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but...general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection." Needless to say, this Arnoldian perspective still informs much of the academic practices and secular... | |
 | Cornel West - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 352 pages
...provincialism and class-bound identities for Arnold's middle-classskewed project: ". . . Aliens, if we may so call them — persons who are mainly led,...general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection." Needless to say, this Arnoldian perspective still informs much of the academic practices and secular... | |
 | Cameron McCarthy - Curriculum change - 1993 - 364 pages
...parochialism, provincialism and class-bound identities for Arnold's middle-class-skewed project: "Aliens, if we may so call them — persons who are mainly led,...general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection" ([1869] 1925, p. 107). Needless to say, this Arnoldian perspective still informs much of academic practice... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Social Science - 1994 - 258 pages
...understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them, — persons who are mainly led,...number is capable of being diminished or augmented. [109-110] Arnold had already prepared the way for such a passage in "The Function of Criticism at the... | |
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... persons who are mainly led, not by their class, 'spirit, but by., a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection... 
