...The question is partly answered in Culture and Anarchy: 365 Culture seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them. This is the social idea; and the men of culture are the...

...that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely — nourished and not bound by them. This is the social ideal; and the men of culture are the...

...that sect of its own, with readymade judgments and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely — nourished, and not bound by them. " This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are...

...through culture, culture which "seeks to do • v. below, pp. 83-5. t vp 70. away with classes, to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere*." Moreover, he was alive to the fact that in 1867 there was already a large and growing "respectable"...

...gives them hardly any of it. (Literature and Dogma, 1873) (Culture] seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished and not bound by them. (Culture and Anarchy, 1869) The teaching of English Arnold...

...in equality. Indeed, Arnold insists that the "social idea" in culture is to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light. This is not mere beneficence, moreover, but an organic feature of culture: "Perfection, as culture...

...that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watch-words. It seeks to do away with classes ; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely, — nourished, and not bound by them. This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are...

...production and accumulation. That's what it meant to institute a culture in Arnold's formulation: "to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere" (p. 426): to manage efficiently, in other words, a system of production and distribution that applied...

...justification for imperialist expansion. Indeed, when he wrote: [Culture] seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the...all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light he was doing more than laying the theoretical groundwork for the great-books-to-plumbers courses which...

...education" resembled Matthew Arnold's passionate defense of "sweetness and light": the evangelical quest to make "the best that has been thought and known in the world" available to all in the interest of progress toward human perfection. Gilman too feared a cultural...