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Only striving toward total perfection is sacred; institutions are machinery valued by how they help it
Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said
What Matthew Arnold actually said
- Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
What is alone and always sacred and binding for man is the climbing towards his total perfection, and the machinery by which he does this varies in value according as it helps him to do it.
Where this was said
↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org
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