| 1891 - 874 pages
...sir." The club has no rooms, but it has a motto, of which we are all proud. The motto is, "Culture: the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world." The author of this is Mr. Matthew Arnold, and it was found originally by the chemist on the back of... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education - 1897 - 1250 pages
...origin and a common purpose. The attainment of it is true culture, as Mr. Matthew Arnold has defined it: "The acquainting ourselves with the best that has...the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit."9 We now come in sight of the element of truth and permanence in that humanism which Petrarch... | |
| Illustrated review - 1871 - 520 pages
...Bible will be most profitably read by the man who has the most culture ; ie, the largest acquaintance with the best that has been known and said in the world," and that we ought not to speak of God as of One who thinks and loves, as if he were a magnified and non-natural... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1873 - 438 pages
...sight of another aim, too, which we have often and often pointed out, and tried to recommend : culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. One cannot go far in the attempt to bring in, for the Bible, a right construction, without seeing how... | |
| W J Morgan - 1874 - 750 pages
...development of the human race. This, then, is Culture. Culture, as its great apostle has defined it — " the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit." Now Culture is to be distinguished from Education, inasmuch as it goes beyond mere abstract learning... | |
| Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pages
...construction and basis is the aim of this essay. The indispensable and only means of finding it is 'culture^ the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.' ' Culture will enable a man to feel what the Bible writers are about, to read between the lines.' Culture... | |
| 1873 - 636 pages
...the way of the highest scientific culture, which consists, to use Dr. Matthew Arnold's phrase, in " acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world " on the particular object of our study. The advantage to commerce of a common language is so obvious... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1873 - 606 pages
...the way of the highest scientific culture, which consists, to use Dr. Matthew Arnold's phrase, in " acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world " on the particular object of our study. The advantage to commerce of a common language is so obvious... | |
| 1874 - 256 pages
...sight of another aim, which we have often and often pointed out, and tried to recommend : culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.' (Preface, p. xi.) 'As far as the people are concerned, the old traditional scheme of the Bible is gone,... | |
| James H. Smart - 1880 - 98 pages
...lead on and out the opening mind. One who is well read is said to be a cultured person. Culture is " the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit." Renan says : " The countries which, like the United States, have created a considerable popular instruction,... | |
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