 | 1867 - 796 pages
...experience, learns to conceive it — is an harmonious expansion af 'ill the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...of any one power at the expense of the rest. Here it goes beyond religion, as religiou is generally conceived by us. If culture, then, is a study of... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 802 pages
...experience, learns to conceive it — is an harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...of any one power at the expense of the rest. Here it goes beyond religion, as religion is generally conceived by us. If culture, then, is a study of... | |
 | 1867
...experience, learns to conceive it — is an harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...of any one power at the expense of the rest. Here it goes beyond religion, as religion is generally conceived by us. If culture, then, is a study of... | |
 | 1867 - 298 pages
...toward " that perfection which is a harmonious expansion of all the powers that make up the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest." We must shun an education exclusively physical, intellectual, or moral. A good heart can effect but... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 pages
...experience, learns to conceive it, — is an harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...of any one power at the expense of the rest. Here it goes beyond religion, as religion is generally conceived by us. If culture, then, is a study of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 pages
...harmonious expansion of all the powers which makelJjeTbeauty and worth of human~' nature, andris Hot consistent with the over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest. Here it goes beyond religion, as religion is generally conceived by us. If culture, then, is a study of... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 pages
...our society : " 2 " Perfection is an harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest." 3 Hence " culture places human perfection in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...our society: "2 "Perfection is an harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...over-development of any one power at the expense of the rest."3 Hence "culture places human perfection in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance... | |
 | 1881 - 476 pages
...study of harmonious perfection, an harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent with...over-development of any one power at the expense of the others, or with an intense absorption in any special pursuit. We require the balanced mind and healthy... | |
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But, finally, perfection — as culture, from a thorough disinterested study of human nature and human experience learns to conceive it — is a harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature, and is not consistent... 
