"The world is forwarded by having its attention fixed on the best things, " Matthew Arnold wrote.

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As the grandson of Darwin's bulldog, Thomas Huxley, and the great nephew of Matthew Arnold, he seemed to embody the double inheritance of the Victorian age.

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As for Matthew Arnold's objections, the mindless drilling of pupils in Victorian schools was a fault of the exam system, not the means by which teachers were paid.

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Both lucid and learned, Lattimore writes with a certain grace, capturing the combination of nobility and speed which over 100 years ago Matthew Arnold famously heard in Homer's work.

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The bishop's solution to this problem which goes back to 19th-century thinkers such as Matthew Arnold is to think of the Bible as poetry rather than dogma: as it cannot give you literal access to the divine, it is only as metaphor that it can satisfy a human longing for the transcendental.

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