Culture and Anarchy; An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Smith Elder Subjects: Great Britain Culture Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General History / Civilization Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Smith Elder Subjects: Great Britain Culture Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General History / Civilization Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. HEBRAISM AND HELLENISM. This fundamental ground is our preference of doing to thinking. Now this preference is a main element iff our nature, and as we study it we find ourselves opening up a number of large questions on every side. Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says : " First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness." We show, as a nation, laudable energy and persistence in walking according to the best light we have, but are not quite careful enough, perhaps, to see that our light be not darkness. This is only another version of the old story that energy is our strong point and favourable characteristic, rather than intelligence. But we may give to this idea a more general form still, in which it will have a yet larger range of application. We may regard this energy driving at practice, this paramount sense of the obligation of duty, self-control, and work, this earnestness in going manfully with the best light we have, as one force. And we may regard the intelligence driving at those ideas which are, after all, the basis of right practice, the ardent sense for all the new and changing combinations of them which man's development brings with it, the indomitable impulse to know and adjust them perfectly, as another force. And these two forces we may regard as in some sense rivals, -- rivals not by the necessity of their own nature, but as exhibited in man and his history, -- ...
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