...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy, Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,...

...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,...

...besetting faults, those who have watched them and listened to them, or those who will read the instructive account recently given of them by one of themselves,...agree that the idea which culture sets before us of perfection,—an increased spiritual activity, having for its characters increased sweetness, increased...

...perfection Arnold articulates in his later essays on culture. That ideal, we recall, requires "an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy" (Prose Works, 5 : 108). Refusing any real contact with the gipsies, Wordsworth in this poem hardly...

...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,...

...and "places human perfection in an internal condition." Its ideal of human perfection is "an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy." "Culture is a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know on all matters which most...

...we all remember, from another book, Arnold's celebrated definition of human perfection as "an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy, not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming."11 Enlargement of the material side of life...