The book Selections From the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold was written by author Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888 Here you can read free online of Selections From the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Selections From the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold a good or bad book?
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In differing from them, however, I wish to proceedwith the utmost caution and diffidence. The smallness of my ownacquaintance with the disciplines of natural science is ever before mymind, and I am fearful of doing these disciplines an injustice. Theability and pugnacity of the partisans of natural science make themformidable persons to contradict. The tone of tentative inquiry, whichbefits a being of dim faculties and bounded knowledge, is the tone Iwould wish to take and not to depart from. A...t present it seems to me, that those who are for giving to natural knowledge, as they call it, thechief place in the education of the majority of mankind, leave oneimportant thing out of their account: the constitution of human nature. But I put this forward on the strength of some facts not at allrecondite, very far from it; facts capable of being stated in thesimplest possible fashion, and to which, if I so state them, the man ofscience will, I am sure, be willing to allow their due weight. Deny the facts altogether, I think, he hardly can.
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