Matthew Arnold Quote

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 the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.


Preface - Culture and Anarchy (1869)


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...

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...

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...

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...