"Sweetness and Light".

If the great mass of mankind, having to work hard in occupations which do not provide much culture for the mind and yet absorb all the attention learned "to see things as they are" with as much facility as an Oxford professor, they would be more than human. Critic Matthew Arnold has displayed in his latest, as indeed in all his sociological papers, considerable difficulty in seeing things as they are himself. Matthew Arnold and Thomas Carlyle have both taken up the position of critics of society, pure and simple, and for persons of a certain temperament no talk can be easier or more delightful. Society in every country in full of defects, defects both of form and substance.