What Matthew Arnold thinks about happiness
English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888); author of Culture and Anarchy.
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1 dated position, c. 1867–1869, in their own words. Our reading of what Matthew Arnold has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingSo far as people act by class, they think happiness is doing what their ordinary self likes
Their wordsAll of us, so far as we are Barbarians, Philistines, or Populace, imagine happiness to consist in doing what one's ordinary self likes.
↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book