He sees the reason for that in the strong libertarian impulse running deep through the English character, or as he calls it, “doing as one likes”. But what really worried Arnold was not so much the rioters – they were working-class and he clearly didn’t expect anything better of them – but the weak or inadequate response of the authorities. He was moved by the demonstrations of the Reform League (during one of which the railings of Hyde Park were destroyed), and by the so-called Murphy Riots of the 1860s, in which the mob incited by an anti-Catholic agitator (both of working-class Catholics offended by him and anti-Catholics attacking Catholic places of worship) wreaked havoc in several cities around England. In this part of the text Arnold deals with what he calls “machinery”, or social systems, and points out that it’s not enough to cherish some values, we have to know what we cherish them for. James Joyce – “Ulyss… on James Joyce – “Ulysses” (“Lest… James Joyce – “A Por… on James Joyce – “A Portrait of t…Ĭonsider sunk costs… on Rudyard Kipling –…Ĭonsidering Sunk Cos… on Rudyard Kipling –… James Joyce – “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” (ctd.).
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