imperfectness

Updated: June 3, 2025

Just imagine Lord Hartington going down to Glasgow, and meeting his Scotch Liberals there, and saying to them: "You are ill at ease, and you are calling for change, and very justly. But the cause of your being ill at ease is not what you suppose. The cause of your being ill at ease is the profound imperfectness of your social civilization.

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold