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Anything like passion, or heat of the blood, Ar- 

 nold is especially shy of. As Maxcus Aurelius said 

 of his imperial father, on all occasions he " stops short 

 of the sweating point." Heat begets fumes and 

 fumes cloud the sky, and Arnold's strength is al- 

 ways in his unclouded intelligence. An unclouded 

 intelligence is among the supreme gifts, but it is not 

 all. Arnold makes us so in love with it that we 

 quite forget the broader and more intensely human 

 qualities, and the part they play in our highest men- 

 tal operations. Truly, as he says in " Youth and 

 Calm," — 



" Calm 's not life's crown, though calm is •well." 



Arnold's desire for calm, for tranquillity, for 

 perfection, probably stands in the way of his full 

 appreciation of certain types of men. All great 

 movements and revolutions are at the expense of 

 calm, of measure, proportion, etc. A certain bias, 

 a certain heat and onesidedness, are necessary to 

 break the equilibrium and set the currents going. 

 The master forces of this world, like Luther in 

 religion, or Cromwell in politics, or Victo Hugo or 

 Shakespeare in literature, or Turner in art, are not 

 nicely measured and adjusted. In the modern 

 world, especially, is man onesided, unclassical, frag- 

 mentary; a great talent here, another there, but 

 nowhere the wholeness and totality Arnold pleads 

 for. 



