Matthew Arnold Quote

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.


"Preface to Poems" (1853)


What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary...

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary...

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary...

What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary...