![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Sweetness and light’ has lost the moral force with which Arnold invested it, and I can’t imagine it being used today except in a mocking or derogatory sense. ![]() ![]() His book consists of a series of essays, first published in the Cornhill Magazine between 18, in which he famously sought to define culture as ‘a study of perfection’, which ‘seeks to do away with classes to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light’. Tylor’s two-volume Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom (1871) – both of which we have reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.Īrnold (1822–88) was the son of Dr Thomas Arnold, the great reforming headmaster of Rugby School, and was widely respected as a poet and cultural commentator. The hook on which the series hung was the opposition between the ways in which the word was defined and discussed in two almost contemporary books – Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (1869) and E.B. Last week, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of five programmes about the origin, meaning and significance of the word ‘culture’. ![]()
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