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lines. Our highly artificial and complex modem 

 life leads to separatism; to not only a division of 

 lahor, but almost to a division of man himself. 

 With the ancients, religion and politics, literature 

 and science, poetry and prophecy, were one. These 

 things had not yet been set apart from each other and 

 differentiated. When to this we add vital unity and 

 simplicity, the love of beauty, and the sense of 

 measure and proportion, we have the classic mind 

 of Greece, and the secret of the power and charm of 

 those productions which have so long ruled supreme 

 in the world of literature and art. Arnold's mind 

 has this classic unity and wholeness. With him 

 religion, politics, literature, and science are one, and 

 that one is comprehended under the name of culture. 

 Culture means the perfect and equal development of 

 man on all sides. 



"Culture," he says, giving vent to his Hellenism, 

 "is of like spirit with poetry, follows one law with 

 poetry:" the dominant idea of poetry is "the idea 

 of beauty and of a human nature perfect in all its 

 sides; " this idea is the Greek idea. "Human life," 

 he says, "in the hands of Hellenism, is invested 

 with a kind of aerial ease, clearness, and radiancy; 

 it is full of what we call sweetness and light." 

 "The best art and poetry of the Greeks," he says, 

 " in which religion and poetry are one, in which the 

 idea of beauty and of human nature perfect on all 

 sides adds to itself a religious and devout energy, and 

 works in the strength of that, is on this account of 

 such surpassing interest and instruct! veness for us." 



