...help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world...found it,— motives eminently such as are called social,—come in as part of the grounds of culture, and the main and pre-eminent part. Culture is...

...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."4 Canada's Marxists of the third way would not have disagreed with Arnold's definitions, and even...

...concept, culture is a humanitarian impulse, a desire to diminish and overcome human error, confusion, and misery, "the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it."1" Said shares this aspiration. He is part of the tradition of cultural thought that Williams describes....

...itself, Arnold saw it as having the power to transform society. In his own words, culture would provide "the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it." Fearing class warfare and revolution in 19th-century England, Arnold believed that high culture could...

...Arnold's key points: that culture had a social function expressed in a 'love of our neighbour' and 'the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it'; that culture was 'a study of perfection;' and that this perfection 'is a harmonious expansion of all...

...Culture's role is both noble and ennobling: it helps develop loving bonds, kindness, humanity, the "aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it" (3l). For Arnold, cultural renewal is a sacred enterprise: it requires "great men of culture'' to become...

...and aesthetic. Thus he said that culture comprises "the love of our neighbour, the impulses toward action, help and beneficence, the desire for stopping...such as are called social, — come in as part of the ground of culture, and the main and preeminent part. Culture is then properly described ... as having...

...help, and beneficence, the desire for removing human error, clearing human confusion, and diminishing human misery, the noble aspiration to leave the world...grounds of culture, and the main and pre-eminent part. (Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1869,1:3)) Whether Arnold's social feeling for human misery extended...

...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' (1960: 44). For Arnold, such an ethics is not predicated on particular persons caring for less fortunate...

...life, increased sympathy'' 'that the arts stimulated when taken seriously and that, in turn, nourished 'the noble aspiration to leave the world better and happier than we found it' (64, 44). Because the arts would teach people to see truly, to discern hidden worth and to extend the...