The book The Function of Criticism At the Present Time was written by author Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888 Here you can read free online of The Function of Criticism At the Present Time book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Function of Criticism At the Present Time a good or bad book?
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filii,'" cries their eloquent ad- vocate; "all Philistines together. 58 THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM Away with the notion of proceeding by any other course than the course dear to the Philistines; let us have a social movement, let us organise and I combine a party to pursue truth and new thought, let us call it the liberal party, and let us all stick to each other, and back each other up. Let us have no nonsense about indepen- dent criticism, and intellectual deli- cacy, and the few and the many.... Don't let us trouble ourselves about foreign thought; we shall invent the ^ whole thing for ourselves as we go along. \i one of us speaks well, ap- plaud him; if one of us speaks ill, applaud him too; we are all in the same movement, we are all liberals, we are all in pursuit of truth." In this way the pursuit of truth becomes really a social, practical, pleasurable AT THE PRESENT TIME. 59 affair, almost requiring a chairman, a secretary, and advertisements; with the excitement of an occasional scan- dal, with a little resistance to give the happy sense of difificulty overcome; but, in general, plenty of bustle and very little thought.
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