Matthew Arnold and Herbert Spencer: a neglected connection in the Victorian debate about scientific and literary education.

Nineteenth-Century Prose | March 22, 2001| | Copyright

Arnold's defense of literary culture and education against the advances of science has usually been examined with regard to his arguments with T.H. Huxley. But though little notice has been paid to it, Herbert Spencer was also an important figure for Arnold in the shaping of his ideas about the value of literature in a scientific age. Arnold had no personal respect for Spencer the self-taught philosopher of science, but the popularity and influence of Spencer's multitudinous writings on every subject under the sun, together with the respect given to his ten volumes of ...

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