
With the century, vol. 4
Psychology and Poetry (June 1930)
With the century, vol. 4
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), Egoism and Altruism, p. 96
Introduction
The Portable Matthew Arnold (Viking Press, 1949)
The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/apr/28/hayfilmfestival2005.guardianhayfestival
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Preface, p. viii
Context: I have sought with some touches of detail to bring out the solidarity and historical continuity of the High Intelligentsia of England, who have built up the foundations of our thought in the two and a half centuries, since Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, wrote the first modern English book. I relate below the amazing progeny of Sir George Villiers. But the lineage of the High Intelligentsia is hardly less interbred and spiritually inter-mixed. Let the Villiers Connection fascinate the monarch or the mob and rule, or seem to rule, passing events. There is also a pride of sentiment to claim spiritual kinship with the Locke Connection and that long English line, intellectually and humanly linked with one another, to which the names in my second section belong. If not the wisest, yet the most truthful of men. If not the most personable, yet the queerest and sweetest. If not the most practical, yet of the purest public conscience. If not of high artistic genius, yet the most solid and sincere accomplishment within many of the fields which are ranged by the human mind.
2000s, 2003, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (November 2003)
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order”