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We seem to have fostered our Hebraising instincts too exclusively and fallen into mechanical routine
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- Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
Here again, therefore, as in the confusion into which the thought and action of even the steadiest class amongst us is beginning to fall, we seem to have an admonition that we have fostered our Hebraising instincts, our preference of earnestness of doing to delicacy and flexibility of thinking, too exclusively, and have been landed by them in a mechanical and unfruitful routine.
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↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org
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