On 25 January 1869, publication of Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy. Arnold spells out the theory of culture underlying the study of the humanities in the academy as a form of culture that combines intellectual pursuit with social reform. Image: Photograph of Matthew Arnold (Project Gutenberg eText 16745). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.

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Peter Melville Logan, “On Culture: Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy, 1869″