Critique
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Key point
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How to understand it?
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Culture
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Study of perfection
Harmonious expansion of human capacities
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In the introduction
to his essay, Arnold clearly mentioned that the Culture is the study of
perfection, a harmonious perfection, idealistic to relate with contemporary
happenings, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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Sweetness
and Light
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Honeybee and spider
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The central and the happy idea, Seeing the things as they are of the essential character of human
perfection
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Doing
as One Likes
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Liberty thoughtless,
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anarchy represents
the absence of a guiding principle in one’s life which prevents one from
striving to attain perfection.
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Barbarians,
Philistines, Populace
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The Aristocrats with Individualism,
The Middle Class,
The working-class people.
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According to Arnold,
the Philistines are middle-class people. Generally, they are shopkeepers,
worldly-wise men, captains of industry busy in trade and commerce.they have personal liberty, money, mainly involved in archaic traditions and gluttony,
irresponsible towards other classes. The working class who help
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Hebraism,
Hellenism
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Hebrew language, the Greek tradition, Spontaneity,
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Their application to a contemporary society which leads to an ideal society. there must be a perfect balance of Hebraism and Hellenism in culture. In England, we find both moral and Intellectual awareness sharpened by Reformation and Renaissance. that is reason leads towards chaos and anarchy.
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Poro
Unum est. Necessarium
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Strictness of rule
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Arnold warns us of
the besetting blindness of fanaticism either in culture or religion. Now
culture diffuses Sweetness and light and religion, fire and strength.
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Our
liberal Practitioners
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