Sweetness and Light (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Matthew Arnold

9780365505334: Sweetness and Light (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365505331 ISBN 13: 9780365505334

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IN one of his speeches a short time ago, that fine speaker and famous Liberal, Mr. Bright, took occasion to have a fling at the friends and preachers of culture. People who talk about what they call culture! Said he contemptuously; by which they mean a smattering of the two dead languages of Greek and Latin. And he went on to remark, in a strain with which modern speakers and writers have made us very familiar, how poor a thing this culture is, how little good it can do the world, and how absurd it is for its possessors to set much store by it. And the other day a younger Liberal than Mr. Bright, one of a school whose mission it is to bring into order and system that body of truth with which the earlier Liberals merely fumbled, a member of the University of Oxford, and a very clever writer, Mr. Frederic Harrison, developed, in the systematic and stringent manner of his school, the thesis which Mr. Bright had propounded in only general terms. Per haps the very silliest cant of the day, said Mr. Frederic.

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