"The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call the Philistines. Culture says: “Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which come forth out of their mouths, the thoughts which make the furniture of their minds; would any amount of wealth be worth having with the condition that one was to become just like these people by having it?”"
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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism is a series of periodical essays by the English poet-critic Matthew Arnold, first published in the Cornhill Magazine 1867–68 and collected as a book in 1869, when the preface was added.
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