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Author: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (December 13, 1815 - July 18, 1881), was an English churchman, dean of Westminster, and known as Dean Stanley. (See Wikipedia)
Published: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, 1880.
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Language: English Thomas Arnold (June 13, 1795 – June 12, 1842) was a
British schoolmaster and historian, head of Rugby School from 1828 to
1841. (source wikipedia) Arnold was born on the Isle of Wight, the son
of William Arnold, an inland revenue officer, and his wife Martha de la
Field. He was educated at Winchester and Corpus Christi College,
Oxford. There he excelled at Classics and was made a fellow of Oriel in
1815. His appointment to the headship of Rugby, the famous public
school, after some years as a tutor, turned the school's fortunes
around, and his force of character and religious zeal enabled him to
turn it into a model followed by the other public schools, exercising
an unprecedented influence on the educational system of the country. He
is portrayed as a leading character in the novel, Tom Brown's
Schooldays.
He was involved in many controversies, educational and religious. As a
churchman he was a decided Erastian, and strongly opposed to the High
Church party. In 1841, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern
History at Oxford. His 1833 Principles of Church Reform is associated
with the beginnings of the Broad Church movement.[1] He was also one of
the Eminent Victorians in Lytton Strachey's book of that name. His
chief literary works are his unfinished History of Rome (three volumes
1838-42), and his Lectures on Modern History. He died suddenly of
angina pectoris in the midst of his growing influence. His biography,
Life of Arnold, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, one of Arnold's former
pupils, is considered one of the best works of its class in the
language.
Extracted from preface: The sources from which this work has been drawn
have necessarily been exceedingly various. It was in fact originally
intended that the several parts should have been supplied by different
writers, as in the instance of the valuable contribution which, in
addition to his kind assistance throughout, has been furnished to the
earlier part by Mr. Justice Coleridge; and although, in its present
shape, the responsibility of arranging and executing it has fallen upon
one person, yet it should still be clearly understood how largely I
have availed myself of the aid of others, in order to supply the
defects of my own personal knowledge of Dr. Arnold's life and
character, which was confined to the intercourse I enjoyed with him,
first as his pupil at Rugby, from 1829 to 1834, and thenceforward, on
more familiar terms, to the end of his life. To his family, I feel that
the fewest words will best express my sense, both of the confidence
which they reposed in me by entrusting to my care so precious a charge,
and of the manifold kindness with which they have assisted me, as none
others could. To the many attached friends of his earlier years, the
occurrence of whose names in the following pages makes it unnecessary
to mention them more particularly here, I would also take this
opportunity of expressing my deep obligations, not only for the
readiness with which they have given me access to all letters and
information that I could require, but still more for the active
interest which they have taken in lightening my responsibility and
labour, and for the careful and most valuable criticism to which some
of them have allowed me to subject the whole or the greater part of
this work. Lastly, his pupils will perceive the unsparing use I have
made of their numerous contributions. I had at one time thought of
indicating the various distinct authorities from which the chapter on
his " School Life at Rugby " has been compiled, but I found that this
would be impracticable. The names of some of those who have most aided
me will be found in the Correspondence. To those many others, who are
not there mentioned— and may I here be allowed more especially to name
my younger schoolfellows, with whom I have become acquainted chiefly
through the means of this work, and whose recollections, as being the
most recent and the most lively, have been amongst the most valuable
that I have received—I would here express my warmest thanks for the
more than assistance which they have rendered me. Great as has been the
anxiety and difficulty of this undertaking, it has been relieved by
nothing so much as the assurance which I have received through their
co-operation, that I was not mistaken in the estimate I had formed of
our common friend and master, and that the influence of his teaching
and example continues and will continue to produce the fruits which he
would most have desired to see. The Correspondence has been selected
from the mass of letters preserved, in many cases, in almost unbroken
series from first to last. One large class— those to the parents of his
pupils—I have been unable to procure, and possibly they could not have
been made available for the present work. Another numerous body of
letters—those which were addressed to scientific or literary men on
questions connected with his edition of Thucydides or his History,—I
have omitted, partly as thinking them too minute to occupy space wanted
for subjects of more general importance; partly because their substance
or their results have for the most part been incorporated into his
published works. To those which appear in the present collection,
something of a fragmentary character has been imparted by the necessary
omission, wherever it was possible, of repetitions, such as must
necessarily occur in letters written to different persons at the same
time, —of allusions which would have been painful to living
individuals,—of domestic details, which, however characteristic, could
not have been published without a greater infringement on privacy than
is yet possible,— of passages which, without further explanation than
could be given, would certainly have been misunderstood. Still, enough
remains to give in his own words, and in his own manner, what he
thought and felt on the subjects of most interest to him. And though
the mode of expression must be judged by the relation in which he stood
to those whom he addressed, and with the usual and just allowance for
the familiarity and unreservedness of epistolary intercourse, yet, on
the whole, the Letters represent (except where they correct themselves)
what those who knew him best believe to have been his deliberate
convictions and his habitual feelings. The object of the Narrative has
been to state so much as would enable the reader to enter upon the
Letters with a correct understanding of their writer in his different
periods of life, and his different spheres of action. In all cases
where it was possible, his opinions and plans have been given in his
own words, and in no case, whether in speaking of what he did or
intended to do, from mere conjecture of my own or of any one else.
Wherever the Narrative has gone into greater detail, as in the chapter
on his " School Life at Rugby," it has been where the Letters were
comparatively silent, and where details alone would give to those who
were most concerned a true representation of his views and actions.
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