[389] This selection is the first chapter of _Culture and Anarchy_. It originally formed a part of the last lecture delivered by Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. _Culture and Anarchy_ was first printed in _The Cornhill Magazine_, July 1867,-August, 1868, vols. XVI-XVIII. It was published as a book in 1869. [390] For ~Sainte-Beuve~, see _The Study of Poetry, Selections_, Note 2, p. 56.[Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 65 in this e-text.] The article referred to appeared in the _Quarterly Review_ for January, 1866, vol. CXIX, p. 80. It finds fault with Sainte-Beuve's lack of conclusiveness, and describes him as having "spent his life in fitting his mind to be an elaborate receptacle for well-arranged doubts." In this respect a comparison is made with Arnold's "graceful but perfectly unsatisfactory essays." PAGE 243 [391] From Montesquieu's _Discours sur les motifs qui doivent nous encourager aux sciences, prononcé le 15 Novembre, 1725_. Montesquieu's _Oeuvres complètes_, ed. Laboulaye, VII, 78. PAGE 244 [392] ~Thomas Wilson~ (1663-1755) was consecrated Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1698. His episcopate was marked by a number of reforms in the Isle of Man. The opening pages of Arnold's _Preface_ to _Culture and Anarchy_ are devoted to an appreciation of Wilson. He says: "On a lower range than the _Imitation_, and awakening in our nature chords less poetical and delicate, the _Maxims_ of Bishop Wilson are, as a religious work, far more solid. To the most sincere ardor and unction, Bishop Wilson unites, in these _Maxims_, that downright honesty and plain good sense which our English race has so powerfully applied to the divine impossibilities of religion; by which it has brought religion so much into practical life, and has done its allotted part in promoting upon earth the kingdom of God." [393] ~will of God prevail~. _Maxim_ 450 reads: "A prudent Christian will resolve at all times to sacrifice his inclinations to reason, and his reason to the will and word of God." PAGE 247 [394] From Bishop Wilson's _Sacra Privata_, Noon Prayers, _Works_, ed. 1781, I, 199. PAGE 248 [395] ~John Bright~ (1811-89) was a leader with Cobden in the agitation for repeal of the Corn Laws and other measures of reform, and was one of England's greatest masters of oratory. [396] ~Frederic Harrison~ (1831-), English jurist and historian, was president of the English Positivist Committee, 1880-1905. His _Creed of a Layman_ (1907) is a statement of his religious position. PAGE 249 [397] See _The Function of Criticism, Selections_, Note 2, p. 37. [Transcriber's note: This is Footnote 38 in this e-text.] PAGE 253 [398] 1 Tim., IV, 8. [399] The first of the "Rules of Health and Long Life" in _Poor Richard's Almanac_ for December, 1742. The quotation should read: "as the Constitution of thy Body allows of." [400] Epictetus, _Encheiridion_, chap. XLI.