...sir." The club has no rooms, but it has a motto, of which we are all proud. The motto is, "Culture: the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world." The author of this is Mr. Matthew Arnold, and it was found originally by the chemist on the back of...

...origin and a common purpose. The attainment of it is true culture, as Mr. Matthew Arnold has defined it: "The acquainting ourselves with the best that has...the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit."9 We now come in sight of the element of truth and permanence in that humanism which Petrarch...

...Bible will be most profitably read by the man who has the most culture ; ie, the largest acquaintance with the best that has been known and said in the world," and that we ought not to speak of God as of One who thinks and loves, as if he were a magnified and non-natural...

...sight of another aim, too, which we have often and often pointed out, and tried to recommend : culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. One cannot go far in the attempt to bring in, for the Bible, a right construction, without seeing how...

...construction and basis is the aim of this essay. The indispensable and only means of finding it is 'culture^ the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.' ' Culture will enable a man to feel what the Bible writers are about, to read between the lines.' Culture...

...development of the human race. This, then, is Culture. Culture, as its great apostle has defined it — " the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit." Now Culture is to be distinguished from Education, inasmuch as it goes beyond mere abstract learning...

...the way of the highest scientific culture, which consists, to use Dr. Matthew Arnold's phrase, in " acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world " on the particular object of our study. The advantage to commerce of a common language is so obvious...

...the way of the highest scientific culture, which consists, to use Dr. Matthew Arnold's phrase, in " acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world " on the particular object of our study. The advantage to commerce of a common language is so obvious...

...sight of another aim, which we have often and often pointed out, and tried to recommend : culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.' (Preface, p. xi.) 'As far as the people are concerned, the old traditional scheme of the Bible is gone,...

...acquaintance ; seeing that on the highest topics, as also on those most immediately practical, it gives us "the best that has been known and said in the world," and the truest and completest " history of the human spirit.'" Significantly coincident with this, even...