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 matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought... Matthew Arnold: Poet and Critic - Page 42by Arnold Schrag - 1904 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1870 - 748 pages
...Mr. Matthew Arnold has written a very interesting "Essay," entitled "Culture and Anarchy." Its object is "to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties." He defines culture as a study and pursuit of perfection. He defends it against the silly "cant of the... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1870 - 752 pages
...Matthew Arnold has written a very interesting "Essay," entitled " Culture and Anarchy." Its object is " to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties." He defines culture as a study and pursuit of perfection. He defends it against the silly " cant of... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...preaches culture as the new gospel for humanity, defines his theme with tantalizing vagueness : it is " a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, in all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and,... | |
| William Unsworth - 1879 - 186 pages
...and sweetness ' through the whole life and society of men. Mr. Arnold says, ' The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out...total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 pages
...currency. And now to pass to the matters canvassed in the \following essay. The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our pre- ] sent difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total / perfection by means of getting to... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1891 - 438 pages
...of currency. And now to pass to the matters canvassed in the following essay. The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuitpT'our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us,... | |
| 1892 - 680 pages
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| William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 308 pages
...remedy, a means of ' seeing things as they really are.' The whole scope of his essay Culture and Anarchy is ' to recommend culture as the great help out of...total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best that has been thought and said in the world ; and through this... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 310 pages
...Anarchy is ' to recommend culture as y the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being n. pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best that has been thought and said in the world ; and through this... | |
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