 Let us conceive of the whole group of civilised nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of...  Autobiography and Essays - Side 220af Thomas Henry Huxley - 1919 - 276 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Homer Judd, Christopher W. Spalding, Henry Seymour Chase - 1881 - 600 sider
...the educational question presents, is apparent enough. Prof. Huxley next quotes Mr. Arnold's dictum that the meaning of culture is " to know the best that has been thought and said in the world," and proceeds to answer it. It may appear presumptious in one who is not even a... | |
 | 1898 - 782 sider
...Arnold has declared that "the criticism which alone can much help us for the future is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation and working to a common result." The present series has been planned on precisely the lines here suggested.... | |
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