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Culture's use is to make us truly feel that wealth is only machinery
Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said
What Matthew Arnold actually said
- Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard of perfection, to regard wealth as but machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that we regard wealth as but machinery, but really to perceive and feel that it is so.
Where this was said
↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org
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