ABSTRACT
I fear Eton . ... It makes admirable gentlemen and finished scholars - fits a
man, beyond all competition, for the dining-room, the Club, StJames's Street1 and all the mysteries of social elegance; but it does not make the man required
the coming generation. We must have nobler, deeper, and sterner stuff; less
gentleman' which Ashley was looking for. Of course the contrast v.ith Eton expressed much more than a choice
had little time for the niceties of refmed society. He had more weighty
he meant by that the translation of sound religion into action, not the perpetuation of a sodal code.5 For Arnold the sense of pressing tasks to be accom-
middle class, including its 'coming men'. In order to register their concerns,
social reach was considerably greater.
