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" It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished,... "
Matthew Arnold - Page 107
by George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - 265 pages
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The Reformed Church Review

1913 - 638 pages
...not something exclusive, but is the promoter of genuine equality; "it seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere"; "to divest knowledge of all that is harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional; to humanize it,...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pages
...*^p hectthajTalTfreeri^iougrit and known iirthp wnrlH rnrrpnt everywhere ; to make all men_lnea-in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as 15 it uses them itqplf freely, — nourished) and not bound This is the social idea ; and the men of...
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Social Ideals in English Letters

Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pages
..." Culture," Arnold had said in " Culture and Anarchy," — " culture seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in...men of culture are the true apostles of equality." 2 This passage may sound like the unpractical hallucination or the vague theory of the dreamer ; but...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1898 - 458 pages
...that sect of its 10 own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in...in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they m ay -w»«" ideals, as 15 it uses them itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 7

1899 - 544 pages
...growth and predominance of our humanity proper, as distinguished from our animality." "Culture seeks to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere." Culture's aim is "to make reason and the will of God prevail." " Culture is reading." said Arnold;...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1

Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pages
...or that sect of its own, with readymade judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in...of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 2

1901 - 622 pages
...that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in...of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 1

David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...or that sect of its own, with readymade judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in...of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...
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The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume 6

Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 466 pages
...that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in...of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in...of culture are the true apostles of equality. The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying...
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