Matthew Arnold (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Matthew Arnold The very name of Matthew Arnold calls up to memory a set of apt phrases and proverbial labels which have passed into our current literature, and are most happily redolent of his own peculiar turn of thought. How could modern criticism be carried on, were it forbidden to speak of ´culture,´ of ´urbanity,´ of ´Philistinism,´ of ´distinction,´ of ´the note of provinciality,´ of ´the great style´? What a convenient shorthand is it to refer to ´Barbarians,´ to ´the young lions of the Press,´ to ´Bottles,´ to ´Arminius,´ to ´the Zeit-Geist´ - and all the personal and impersonal objects of our great critics genial contempt! It is true that our young lions (whose feeding time appears to be our breakfast hour) have roared themselves almost hoarse over some of these sayings and nicknames, and even the ´note of provinciality´ has become a little provincial. But how many of these pregnant phrases have been added to the debates of philosophy and even of religion! ´The stream of tendency that makes for righteousness,´ ´sweetness and light´ - not wholly in Swift´s sense, and assuredly not in Swift´s temper either of spirit or of brain - ´sweet reasonableness,´ ´das gemeine, the ´Aberglaube,´ are more than mere labels or phrases: they are ideas, gospels - at least, aphorisms. The judicious reader may recall the rest of these epigrams for himself, for to set forth any copious catalogue of them would be to indite a somewhat leonine essay oneself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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