Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social CriticismSmith, Elder & Company, 1869 - 272 Seiten |
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... light they have , and desire to take no whit from it , we seek to add to this what we call sweetness and light , and develope their full humanity more perfectly ; and to seek this is certainly not to be the enemy of the Nonconformists ...
... light they have , and desire to take no whit from it , we seek to add to this what we call sweetness and light , and develope their full humanity more perfectly ; and to seek this is certainly not to be the enemy of the Nonconformists ...
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... sweetness and light . And , therefore , when the Rev. Edward White asks the same kind of question about America that he has asked about England , and wants to know whether , without religious establishments , as much is not done in ...
... sweetness and light . And , therefore , when the Rev. Edward White asks the same kind of question about America that he has asked about England , and wants to know whether , without religious establishments , as much is not done in ...
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... still more striking is the difference between the two views of intelligence , when we see that culture not only makes a quite disinterested choice of the machinery " proper to carry us towards sweetness and light , and ( lii )
... still more striking is the difference between the two views of intelligence , when we see that culture not only makes a quite disinterested choice of the machinery " proper to carry us towards sweetness and light , and ( lii )
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... sweetness and light . " The supuns is the man who tends towards sweetness and light ; the apuns is precisely our Philistine . The immense spiritual significance of the Greeks is due to their having been inspired with this central and ...
... sweetness and light . " The supuns is the man who tends towards sweetness and light ; the apuns is precisely our Philistine . The immense spiritual significance of the Greeks is due to their having been inspired with this central and ...
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... sweetness and light , and an ideal of complete harmonious human perfection ! One need not go to culture and poetry to find language to judge it . Religion , with its instinct for perfection , supplies language to judge it : " Finally ...
... sweetness and light , and an ideal of complete harmonious human perfection ! One need not go to culture and poetry to find language to judge it . Religion , with its instinct for perfection , supplies language to judge it : " Finally ...
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Seite 27 - Protestant religion.' There is sweetness and light, and an ideal of complete harmonious human perfection! One need not go to culture and poetry to find language to judge it. Religion, with its instinct for perfection, supplies language to judge it, language, too, which is in our mouths every day. 'Finally, be of one mind, united in feeling,' says St. Peter. There is an ideal which judges the Puritan ideal: 'The Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion!
Seite 8 - There is a view in which all the love of our neighbour, the impulses towards action, help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it...
Seite 16 - Its preachers have, and are likely long to have, a hard time of it, and they will much oftener be regarded, for a great while to come, as elegant or spurious Jeremiahs than as friends and benefactors. That, however, will not prevent their doing in the end good service if they persevere.
Seite 187 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Seite 47 - The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater!
Seite 19 - Well, then, what an unsound habit of mind it must be which makes us talk of things like coal or iron as constituting the greatness of England, and how salutary a friend is culture, bent on seeing things as they are, and thus dissipating delusions of this kind and fixing standards of perfection that are real! Wealth, again, that end to which our prodigious works for material advantage are directed — the commonest of commonplaces tells us how men are always apt to regard wealth as a precious end...
Seite 21 - Why, one has heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of the Times on the RegistrarGeneral's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them...
Seite 108 - Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them, — persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection ; and that this number is capable of being diminished or augmented.
Seite 23 - The best art and poetry of the Greeks, in which religion and poetry are one, in which the idea of beauty and of a human nature perfect on all sides adds to itself a religious and devout energy...
Seite 252 - ... self, in the progress of humanity towards perfection, — for us the framework of society, that theatre on which this august drama has to unroll itself, is sacred ; and whoever administers it, and however we may seek to remove them from their tenure of administration, yet, while they administer, we steadily and with undivided heart support them in repressing anarchy and disorder ; because without order there can be no society, and without society there can be no human perfection.