Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy – Reading progress update: I’ve read 22%.

Well, I’d never thought I’d quote Matthew Arnold, but this seems to turn out to be quite a timely read.

Arnold on Culture:

And because men are all members of one great whole, and the sympathy which is in human nature will not allow one member to be indifferent to the rest, or to have a perfect welfare independent of the rest, the expansion of our humanity, to suit the idea of perfection which culture forms, must be a general expansion.