have recognized it, as an incomparable source of
moral wisdom and of religious emotion. To value
its poetry and its morality he was eminently quali-
fied. In an age when its hold upon both cultivated
and ignorant minds was weakened by the general
discrediting of the old theological interpretations, he
performed a great service by uncompromisingly re-
jecting the theological interpretations as obsolete,
and as, at the present day, absolutely unimportant
to believers in sound morality and sound religion.
Following in the spirit of his favorite apostle—
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good"-
he firmly indicated those things in the Bible which
to accept as science is incompatible with habits of
intellectual seriousness. But when that work was
done, he brought to the task of reconstructive inter-
pretation the light of a wide secular culture, pro-
found moral insight, an apprehension fresh and
untrammeled by clerical cant, a passion for righteous-
ness, and an instinct for religion. He gives to the
reader for whom the great book has become dusty
with neglect or staled by pulpit usage and thought-
less parroting new zest and new eyes for reading
the Bible. More than that, he leaves one with
strengthened conviction that Christianity has the
key to "that universal order which the intellect feels
after as a law, and the heart feels after as a benefit."

THE END

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INDEX

INDEX

(Titles from Arnold's Works Are Indicated by Italics)

America, 12, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 203, 234, 253,

262, 263.

Amiel, 40, 171, 179.

Amiel, Henri Frédéric, 32, 54, 93, 180.

Apponyi, Count and Countess d', 35.

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 284.

Argyll, Duke of, 35.

Aristotle, 150, 151, 155, 230, 302.

"Arminius," 191-196.

Arnold, Basil, 36.

Arnold, Frances Lucy (Mrs. Matthew A.), 13, 37, 40, 49.

Arnold, Lucy, 40, 47.

Arnold, Matthew (see table of contents).

Arnold, Thomas, 37.

Arnold, Thomas, Dr., 5, 30.

Arnold, Thomas, Mrs., 5, 7, 19.

Ashburton, Lady, 35.

Augustine, St., 250.

Austerity of Poetry, 70.

Babylas, 284.

Bacon, Lord, 12, 271.

Balder Dead, 15, 98, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 126.

Bancroft, George, 43.

Beaconsfield, Lady, 35.

Beaumont and Fletcher, 162.

Bedford, Duke of, 35.

Bédier, Joseph, 164.

Beecher, Henry Ward, 43.

Better Part, The, 88.

Bible-Reading for Schools, A, 39.

317

Bismarck, Prince, 48, 123.
Boileau, 151.

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 157.
British Quarterly Review, 137.
Brontë, Charlotte, 33.
Brooks, Phillips, 42.

Browning, Robert, 10, 31, 52.
Bryce, James (Viscount), 36.
Buddha, 168.

Buried Life, The, 60, 61, 62, 63, 86.
Burke, Edmund, 232, 234, 245, 247.
Burns, Robert, 159, 162.

Butler, Bishop, 291.

Byron, 172.

Byron, Lord, 39, 54, 161, 162.

Calvin, John, 307.

Campbell, Thomas, 162.

Carlyle, Thomas, 4, 12, 33, 72, 73, 123, 144, 187, 229, 230, 231,
232, 233, 234, 241, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 254, 258, 259,
261, 262, 264, 274, 277.

Carnegie, Andrew, 42, 49.

Celtic Magic, 175.

Chanson de Roland, 159, 164.

Chapman, George, 174.

Chateaubriand, F. R. de, 54.

Chesterton, G. K., 261.

Child, J. F., 43.

Chrétien de Troyes, 159, 164.

Cicero, 140, 293.

Circourt, M. de, 27.

Civilization in the United States, 40.

Clifford, Colonel, 35.

Clough, A. H., 8, 32, 77.

Coleridge, S. T., 162.

Collins, J. C., 271.

Comte, Auguste, 277.

Copernicus, 215.

Cornhill Magazine, The, 34.

Cowper, Henry, 36.

Cowper, William, 162, 174.

Cromwell, 8.

Cuffe, Doctor, 271.

Culture and Anarchy, 34, 35, 38, 197, 198, 229, 237, 238, 239,
240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 247, 248, 249, 264, 265, 266,
267, 291.