For Matthew Arnold, culture is:
- A. the ability to know what is best
- B. the ability to know what is worst
- C. the mental and spiritual application of what is best
- D. the pursuit of what is best
- E. the pursuit of what is worst
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Correct answer: D. A, C and D only
Explanation
In Culture and Anarchy (1869), culture is 'a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know... the best which has been thought and said in the world', and of turning that knowledge upon our habits and ideas. Knowing, applying and pursuing the best fit Arnold (A, C, D); anything about 'the worst' does not.
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