Part of Arnold's complex style of thought derives, according to DeLaura, from his encounter at Oriel College, Oxford, with with two essentially incompatible intellectual traditions —. To the Oxford Movement , above all to Newman , Arnold was to look for that temper of mind which he was to recommend as perhaps the chief substance of his critical and social essays.
From the "Oriel Noetics," men like Whately and Hampden, Arnold learned the chief method of his religous criticism of the eighteen-seventies — the sharp distinction between the explicative language of theology and the syymbolic and "approximative" language of the Bible. Arnold, who seems to have lost his religous beliefs without the spiritual agonies experienced by Carlyle, Ruskin , and so many other Victorians, nonetheless always remained convinced that most other people, and certainly the masses, desperately needed religion.
He also firmly believed that members of the cultural elite, which Coleridge termed the clerisy, must accommodate its ideas to the needs of society's needs for stability — that is, that he and others like him had to tell the truth without undermining the beliefs of others. In other words, whereas Ruskin and Carlyle were always ready to make waves, Arnold, who believed such straighfowardness to be vulgar and potentially irresponsible, embodies the injunction, "Sit down, and don't rock the boat.
Part of this basic attitude, part of his style of thought and action, comes directly from that distinction between intellectual discourse and poetry — a distinction that, for Arnold, often coincided with one between private and public speech: dangerous topics being permitted to members of an intellectual Oxford elite whereas more public, popular speech had different responsibilities.
This distinction, of course, simply repeats Tractarian notions of Reserve, according to which the religious elite rightfully witholds from the endangered ordinary person spiritual truths or ideas that might be harmful. In the twentieth century, Reserve reappears more than a little grotesquely in the power and privileges of the Communist Party. Given his combination of religious and intellectual agnosticism , Arnold tried to achieve a calm, non-polemical, gentlemanly stance — for the sake of the public:.
Arnold, always tortuously conscious of his public stance and tone, looked to Newman above all others for the qualities of mind and the tone of public discourse which he not only sought to emulate but which were, to a large extent, the very substance of his message in the sixties. Arnold whimself was to acknowledge in , which in the midst of writing Culture and Anarchy , that Newman's influence was "mixed up with all that is most essential in what I do and say.
In November Arnold, now deep in Literaure and Dogma, specified that Newman's effect "consists in a general disposition of mind rather than in a particular set of ideas. Arnold found himself forced to follow Carlyle and act as a Victorian prophet, but, turning to Newman for style and tone, he made himself into what a contemporary paper described as an "elegant Jeremiah.
Thus, "Arnold's religionizing of culture in the sixties had ample precedent in Newman's transference, almost verbatim, of the supernatural virtues in Oxford sermons to his description of secular education in Discourse V of The Idea of a University " [xiii].
Similarly, for his own conception of himself, for style and tone, Arnold transfers Newman's ideas of the true gentleman to the responsibilities and acts of the Carlylean sage. All products featured on FashionBeans are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The material on this site can not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Solid Ventures.
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