...not seek to "teach down to the level of inferior classes" but instead 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" (1949a, 499). That Arnold's ideals were so profoundly influential...

...and watchwords. It seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been known and thought in the world current everywhere; to make all men live...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...

...nationhood. Indeed, liberal educators are "the true apostles of equality"; their mission is simply "to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere" (79). Brian Doyle has written that "the impulse towards a conception of the national culture seen in...

...and commerce. In Culture and Anarchy, first published in 1869, he asserted that culture seeks: 'to make the best that has been thought and known in the world everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas,...

...perfecting of human beings. Arnold, supra, at 59. Culture, he adds, "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. . . . (T]he men of culture are the true apostles of equality."...

...significance of Culture (with a capital 'C'), stating that: 'Culture seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere' ( 1 875: 44). Arnold argued that culture brings enlightenment or 'cultivation', which transcends social...

...and light? Cultural diversity in the contemporary global economy David Throsby '[Culture] seeks ... to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness...where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely - nourished and not bound by them.' Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy, 1869 What is cultural...

...notebook (Pforzheimer 71 1, (.14; see Irwin, Notebooks, 253). The slightly different formulation, "to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere," occurs in Culture and Anarchy, 79. evident and progressive notion, sanctioned by the latest in evolutionary...

...culture advanced by Matthew Arnold in Culture and Anarchy: 'Culture ... seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere.'15 Williams's famous counter-claim that 'culture is ordinary,' combined with Thompson's...

...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, (ibid.: 79) Arnold is trying to clear the way not for a...