a variety of means of the ideas, attitudes, practices, and habits of temperament and sensibility that are implicit in his master term, 'culture.' " Salvation, Arnold said, was "a harmonious perfection only to be won cultivating many sides in us."
These recommendations could be given 'such a high spiritual priority," Marcus points out, only on the presupposition that revealed religion, specifically Christianity, was no longer "the ultimate authority or standard of values...