What Matthew Arnold thinks about religion

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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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1. c. 1867–1869

   Our readingPerfection is a process of growing and becoming, not a state of having and resting

   Their wordsNot a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it; and here, too, it coincides with religion.

   ↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book