...perfection in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper, as distinguished es in the streets Eight years together, as my fortune was, Watching folk's oj those gifts of thought and feeling, which make the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human...

...-- Religion says: The kingdom of God is njthin you It places it in the ever increasing eTf icacy aHd in tHe" general harmonious expansion of those gifts...peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature." Whether or not Arnold intended to, he is writing emotively: we feel an emotional lifting, while our...

...religion. He argued that religion and culture shared the same goal: the perfection of humanity through the "harmonious expansion of those gifts of thought and...peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature." But because hebraism had led religion to emphasize duty over intelligence, Arnold believed, "culture...

...perfection in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper, as distinguished from our animality. It places it in the ever-increasing...peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature. (1966, p. 47) Or more succinctly: culture, Arnold says, "simply means trying to perfect oneself and...

...on which to build perfection; it has given them character, though it has not given them culture, But it is in making endless additions to itself, in the endless expansion of its jxiwcrs, in endless growth in wisdom anil beauty, that the spirit of the human race finds its ideal;...

...pursuing an ever-enlarged point of view.11 In his estimation, the spirit of the human race finds its ideal in making endless additions to itself, in the endless expansion of its powers and in endless growth in wisdom and beauty. Consequently, within the ambit of culture, which is the...

...perfection in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper, as distinguished from our animality. It places it in the ever-increasing...the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human nature."44 Such personal culture, he argued, must precede any social action for the latter to be truly...

...which culture holds up before us is an ideal of human life. It is an ideal of perfection conceived as "the general harmonious expansion of those gifts of...peculiar dignity, wealth and happiness of human nature" [Arnold 1995b, 62]. In short, culture is a standard of human wholeness. It might be thought that the...

...in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper, äs distinguished from our animality. It places it in the ever-increasing efficacy and in the general harmonious expansion ofthose gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity, wealth, and happiness of human...

...humanity proper, as distinguished from our antmality. It places it in the ever-increasing efficacy and la the general harmonious expansion of those gifts of...human nature. As I have said on a former occasion. 'Ills in making endress additions to itself, in the endless expansion of its power, in endless growth...