RELIGION AND CULTURE.
And religion, the greatest and most important of the efforts by which the human race has manifested its impulse to perfect itself—religion, that voice of the deepest human experience—does ; not only enjoin and sanction the aim which is the great aim of culture, the aim of setting ourselves to ascertain what perfection is and to make it prevail ; but also, in determining generally in what human perfection consists, religion conies to a conclusion identical with that which culture—culture seeking the. determination of this question througli all the voices of human experience, which have been heard upon it, of art, science, poetry, philosophy, history, as well as of religion, in order to give a greater fullness and certainty to its solution—likewise I reaches.—Matthew Arnold.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18468, 21 May 1928, Page 4
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