Word: hebraism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between what Arnold called Hebraism-the urge of conscience to follow the best moral light man has-and Hellenism-the spirit of inquiry that constantly questions conscience to be sure that it does not mislead, that the best light is not superstitious darkness. He foresaw that the 19th century's grim but necessary preoccupation...