What Matthew Arnold thinks about politics
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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Their wordsAnd he who leads men to call forth and exercise in themselves this power, and who busily calls it forth and exercises it in himself, is at the present moment, perhaps, as Socrates was in his time, more in concert with the vital working of men's minds, and more effectually significant, than any House of Commons' orator, or practical operator in politics.
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