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the other. Emerson was a literary force, but ahove 

 and beyond that he was a religious force, a force of 

 genius and of good breeding. The dissenters, the 

 English Puritans, the French Huguenots, embody 

 a force of conscience. Carlyle was a force of Puri- 

 tanism, blended with a force antagonistic to it, the 

 force of German culture, — two forces that did not 

 work well together and which gave him no rest. 



Arnold was a literary force of a very high order, 

 but was he anything else ? WiU he leave any per- 

 manent mark upon the conscience, upon the politics, 

 upon the thought of his countrymen? His works, 

 as models of urbanity and lucidity, will endure ; still 

 they do not contain the leaven which leavens and 

 modifies races and times. 



The impression that a fragmentary and desultory 

 reading of Arnold is apt to give one, — namely, that 

 he is one of the scorners, a man of "a high look 

 and a proud heart," — gradually wears away as one 

 growS; familiar with the main currents of his teach- 

 ings. He does not indeed turn out to be a large, 

 hearty, magnetic man, but he proves to be a 

 thoroughly serious and noble one, whose calmness 

 and elevation are of great value. His writings, as 

 now published in a uniform edition, embrace ten 

 volumes, to wit: two volumes of poems; two vol- 

 umes of literary essays, "Essays in Criticism" and 

 a volume made up of " Celtic Literature " and " On 

 Translating Homer ; " a volume of mixed essays, 

 mainly on Irish themes; a volume called "Culture 

 and Anarchy" containing also "Friendship's Gar- 



