...In general its course is determined for it by the idea which is the law of its being ; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas. By the very nature of things,...

...for I am afraid I must disappoint these expectations. I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the...comes into this " best that is known and thought in the world" 1 Not very much, I fear; certainly less, at this moment, than of the current literature...

...definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that islcnowncmd thought in the world. How much of current English literature comes into this 1 best that is known and thought in the world 1' Not very much, I fear; certainly less, at this moment,...

...Essays in Criticism" he has called his book ; and within its pages he has defined criticism as " the disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." Such an endeavour he has made, and the result is before us. The contents of the volume...

...Criticism at the present time,' * Mr. Matthew Arnold labours strenuously to prove that criticism should be a ' disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' Practical results he considers to be specially abhorrent to the true critic-nature ;...

...Criticism at the present time,'* Mr. Matthew Arnold labours strenuously to prove that criticism should be a 'disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' Practical results he considers to be specially abhorrent to the true critie-nature;...

...Criticism at the present time,' * Mr. Matthew Arnold labours strenuously to prove that criticism should be a ' disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' Practical results he considers to be specially abhorrent to the true critic-nature ;...

...essays are perfectly consistent with that early preface. He rests on this definition of criticism : ' a ' disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is ' known and thought in the world.' The critic, in his opinion, is not a judge merely, but also an instructor. And, maintaining...

...may think of The Cloud of Witness, they cannot fail to recognize in it what Matthew Arnold called ' a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' We have only to add that the book itself is daintily bound and beautifully printed,...

...prejudice, as it has been represented either in the Edinburgh or in the Quarterly Review, but " the disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." Real criticism, he says, is essentially the exercise of "curiosity as to ideas and all...