218 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



comes aware of two lives, one permanent and imper- 

 sonal, the other transient and bound to our contrasted 

 self ; he becomes aware of two selves, one higher and 

 real, the other inferior and apparent ; and that the 

 instinct in him truly to live, the desire for happi- 

 ness, is served by following the first self and not 

 the second." 



It is to be remembered of Matthew Arnold that 

 his culture, his temper, and his method were essen- 

 tially classical, Greek ; that he looked with suspicion 

 upon all disproportionate mental or spiritual devel- 

 opment, that he would have the man equally de- 

 veloped on all sides of his nature, and that he says 

 in one of his poems that he owed " special thanks " 

 to the " even-balanced " soul of the old Greek bard, 

 whose ideal he seems to have had ever before him, 



" Who saw life steadily and saw it whole." 



