108 INDOOK STUDIES 



what the religion of the Ajiglican Church appears 

 to be. 



Arnold always distrusts the individual; he sees 

 in him mainly a bundle of whims and caprices. 

 The individual is one-sided, fantastical, headstrong, 

 narrow. He distrusts all individual enterprises in 

 the way of schools, colleges, churches, charities; 

 and, like his teacher, Aristotle, pleads for state ac- 

 tion in all these matters. "Culture," he says (and 

 by culture he means Hellenism), "will not let us 

 rivet our attention upon any one man and his do- 

 ings;" it directs our attention rather to the "natu- 

 ral current there is in human affairs ; " and assigns 

 "to systems and to system-makers a smaller share in 

 the bent of human destiny than their friends like. " 



"I remember, when I was under the influence of 

 a mind to which I feel the greatest obligations, the 

 mind of a man who was the very incarnation of 

 sanity and clear sense, a man the most considerable, 

 it seems to me, whom America has yet produced, 

 — Benjamin Franklin, — I remember the relief with 

 which, after long feeling the sway of Franklin's im- 

 perturbable common-sense, I came upon a project of 

 his for a new version of the Book of Job, to replace 

 the old version, the style of which, says Franklin, 

 has become obsolete, and hence less agreeable. 'I 

 give, ' he continues, ' a few verses, which may serve 

 as a sample of the kind of version I would recom- 

 mend. ' ^ We all recollect the famous verse in our 



1 It turns out that this was only a joke of Franklin's, and it is 

 very curious that Arnold did not see it. 



