The Morning Star, taunts me, as its promulgator, with living out of
It is summed up as being not practical, or, - as some critics moreįamiliarly put it, - all moonshine. Reforms and reformers which try to extirpate them. Making its believer refuse to lend a hand at uprooting the definiteĮvils on all sides of us, and filling him with antipathy against the Miseries a religion breathing a spirit of cultivated inaction, Parmaceti, or some scented salve or other, as a cure for human "religion of culture," as the objectors mockingly call it, which I am Side of the Atlantic, all sorts of objections are raised against the However, I ought perhaps to notice that, both here and on the other Intelligence, or light, as a character of perfection. ToĬomplete rightly my design, it evidently remains to speak also of But hitherto I have been insistingĬhiefly on beauty, or sweetness, as a character of perfection. Study and pursuit of perfection and that of perfection as pursued byĬulture, beauty and intelligence, or, in other words, sweetness and I have been trying to show that culture is, or ought to be, the
Numbers in brackets indicate page numbers so readers can cite the print edition, if necessary.
He has produced this e-text from the first edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1869. Drake, PhD, has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web this chapter from Arnold's Culture and Anarchy from his website.
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