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Excerpt from Matthew Arnold and the Spirit of the Age: Papers of the English Club of Sewanee Classic, and (2) modern literature; what remains was of temporary interest, and consists chiefly of criticism of the political and religious situation in which he found himself - affording, thus, points for discussion. Between Arnold and the natural scientists his contemporaries there existed a kind of armed neutrality; they never struck up a cordial alliance, though all reacted against the dogmatic and supernaturalistic position Of the preceding epoch. His most conspicuous deficiency was asthetic; for fine art he seems to have cared little and of its principles and history to have known less. In the volumes of his letters there occurs no reference to his celebrated contemporary, the late President of the Royal Academy, - Sir Frederick Leighton. This is the more remarkable in that they were both of classic propensities; if any art might have been expected to appeal to Arnold, it would be Leigh ton's. In the course of discussion it was agreed that these two, with Jowett, sum up the prominent and essen tial features of the culture of their day - that is, our own, - and this by itself is a valuable point to gain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.