 Engineer, will agree that the idea which culture sets before us of perfection, — an increased spiritual activity, having for its characters increased sweetness, increased light, increased life, increased sympathy, — is an idea which the new democracy...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 50edited by - 1867Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1867 - 796 pages
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that it is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | 1867
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that it is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 354 pages
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who | has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - Christianity - 1870 - 174 pages
...since Mr. Arnold reproduced them, have become proverbial, ' Sweetness and Light ' — ' An inward and spiritual activity having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy.' The age of the world in which these two, ' sweetness and light,' were pre-eminently combined was, Mr.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1870 - 494 pages
...perfection (of the soul, the man and his life, and of men in their social relations) ; it is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Elsewhere he maintains, as we understand him, that perfect culture unites the advantages and avoids... | |
 | D. S. Gregory - Christian ethics - 1875 - 364 pages
...become secondary to culture. The age of the world, in which "sweetness and light" — "an inward and spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy" — were pre-eminently combined, was the best age of Athens, that which is represented in the poetry... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
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