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" ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners... "
Irish Essays: And Others - Page 55
by Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 308 pages
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The Popular Science Monthly, Volumes 7-12

Science - 1878 - 616 pages
...to full humanization, to true civilization, besides the power of social life and manners. There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all. And without in the least wishing to preach, I must observe, as a mere...
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Unity Pulpit, Volume 9

Sermons, American - 1887 - 626 pages
...several elements or powers, as I have often insisted, go to build up a complete human life. There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge,...power of beauty, the power of social life and manners : we have instincts responding to them all, requiring them all." The development of all that is highest,...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 368 pages
...rapidly enumerate the powers which, upon this basis, contribute to build up human civilisation. They are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge,...power of beauty, the power of social life and manners. Expansion, conduct, science, beauty, manners, — here are the conditions of civilisation, the claimants...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1879 - 370 pages
...what it now is ? For if to the building up of human life and civilisation there go these four powers, the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners, and if to the disengagement and strengthening and final harmony...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1879 - 368 pages
...building up of human life there i, belong all those other powers also,—the power of intellect j '• and knowledge, the power of beauty, the power of social life and manners. And something, by what they became, they gained, and the whole nation with them; they deepened and...
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The Waldenses of To-day

George Edwin Waring (Jr.) - 1879 - 152 pages
...himself, " the powers which, upon this basis, contribute to build up human civilization " are chiefly " the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of art and beauty, the power of social life and manners." Those who are familiar with Matthew Arnold's...
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Passages from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 352 pages
...next enumerate the powers which, upon this basis, contribute to build up human civilisation. They are the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge,...power of beauty, the power of social life and manners. Expansion, conduct, science, beauty, manners, — here are the conditions of civilisation, the claimants...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1880 - 372 pages
...people as they were, that to the building up of human life there belong all those other powers also, — the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, the power of social life and manners. And something, by what they became, they gained, and the whole nation with them ; they deepened and...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1880 - 476 pages
...to full humanisation, to true civilisation, besides the power of social life and manners. There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all. And without in the least wishing to preach, I must observe, as a mere...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1880 - 368 pages
...what it now is ? For if to the building up of human life and civilisation there go these four powers, the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners, and if to the disengagement and strengthening and final harmony...
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