Saturday's Quote

This passage from the noted nineteenth century critic and essayist Matthew Arnold is kind of a prelude for a longer post I should have up by tomorrow (probably under the heading "The Last Movie I Saw"). So your assignment is to read this, think about it, and be prepared to consider how it applies in that upcoming post:

"The great men of culture are those who have
had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail,
for carrying from one end of society to the other,
the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time;
who have labored to divest knowledge of all that
was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional,
exclusive; to humanize it, to make it efficient
outside the clique of the cultivated and the
learned, yet still remain the best knowledge
and thought of the time, and a true source,
therefore, of sweetness and light."