Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-03-07
Gems from Matthew Arnold.

AT the present moment two things
about the Christian religion must surely
be clear to anybody with eyes in his head.
One is that men cannot do without it
the others, that they cannot do with it as
it is. - Thoughts on the Christian Relig-
ion, 1877.
Common prudence can say: Honesty
is the best policy morality can say To
conduct belongs happiness. But Israel
and the Bible are filled with religious
joy, and rise higher and say 'Righteous-
ness is Saivution and that is what is
inspiring. - Literature and Dogma.
Culture looks beyond machinery :
culture hates hatred culture has one
great passion, the passion for sweetness
and light. 1t has one even yet greater =
the passion for making them prsvaiL -
| Culture and Anarchy.
con the side of beauty and taste, vul-
garity on the side of morality and feel
ing, coarseness on the side of mind and
spirit, unintelligence. - Definition of
Philistinism.
Expansion, conduct, science, beauty,
manners,-here are the conditions of civil
llzation, the claimants which man must
satisfy before he can be humanized. -
Requisites for Civilization Mixed Es-
says.
Ear more Of our mistakes come from
want of fresh knowledge than from want
OF correct reasoning. y Literature and
Dogma.
Genius is mainly an affair Of energy. "
Il Essay on Literary Influence of Acade-
| mics.
"God keeps tossing back to the human
race Its failures and commanding it to
try again"
"IIe took the suffering human race
| lie read each wound, each weakness clear,
| He struck his finger on the place.
Aud SAID Thou ailest here and hare "
Memorial Verses, 1880.
"Inequality matenalizes tho uppel
class, vulgarises the middle class, and
brutalizes the lower class. - Essay on
Equality.
"In praising culture we have never de-
MED that conduct, not culture, is three.
fourths of human life. - Literature and
Dogma.
"In speaking about civilization hall
ones labor is saved when one speaks
about it among those who are civilized. -
Essays on Equality.
"Most of us, alas are what we mus
be, not what we ought to be,-not even
what we know we ought to be. > rJou
bert.
"Never perhaps do men show them
selves so earnest, SO pertinacious, 30 uu
tiringly ingenious, as when they hav,
under discussion the right and idea of pro
perty. u Essay.on Copyright.
"Perfection will never be reached, bu
to recognize n period of transfc rmatiol
when 1t comes, and to adapt themselve
honestly and nationally to its laws, is per
haps the nearest approach to perfection
OF which men and nations are capable. -
Mixed Essays.
"Poetry intcrprcts in two ways it in
| terprets by expressing with magical fell
city the physiognomy and movement o
the outward world, and it interprets b.
expressing with inspired conviction til
ideas and laws of the inward world G
O mans moral and spiritual nature. - F.
: says in Criticism.
a Poetry is nothing less than the mos
n perfect speech Of man, that in which h
y comes nearest to being able to utter tn
truth. Introduction to Wordsworth
Poems.
q 'PoetIy is simply the most beautiful
. impressive and widely effective mode {
? saying things, and hence its importance.
:: From Essays in Criticism Heinric
> Heine.
e Simple rs the Bible ana conduct art
:. still culture seems to be required for then
required to prevent our mishandling an
sophisticating them. - Literature MI
r Dogma.
y "The ideal saint ia nature OF ineff,
" bic sweetness and serenity, n nature
- which struggle and revolt is over, and IL
= whole man $50 fan as is possible 10 In
:, man infrmity) swallowed up in love-
: Essays on Eugenio de Guerin
! "Ihe we'll being OF the many CONE
!, out more and more distinctly, III propo
"a ton as time goes on, as the object v
d must pursue. - Mixed Essays.
r. "There is an underlying depth in HI
70 man nature, which requires that know
edge should connect itself with our sem
OF beauty and conduct. ~ Literature al
Science.
ID Truth illuminates and gives Joy, al
ID II is by the bond Of joy, not of pleasur
/ that mems spirits are indissolubly held
A. = Essay on Joubert.
" What is beautiful attracts us and d
Q. lights US by virtue Of natural laws b
Is these laws are secret, we cannot draw O
the recipe for making the beautiful fro
them Isaiah of Jerusalem.
y The new editor OF the Knoxville (Ten
a. ChTonloEe expr' sses the hope that he shall
"a able to tell the truth without giving offen
81 The man is evidently Young aud inexp.