Both are the most potent forces, and they should be in harmony by the light of reason. He talks about the great idea to know and the great energy to act. Such energy that has the sense of obligation and duty must be related to the best light. In his opinion, the nation is energy or the capacity of doing but it is not intelligence or capacity of thinking rightly. The nation follows the voice of its conscience and its best light, but it is not the light of true reason except darkness. He rejects it because mankind is to err and he can not always think right, but it comes seldom in the process of reasoning and meditation, or he is not rightly guided by the light of true reason. His general view about human beings is that they prefer to act rather than to think. In the inception of the topic, he discusses doing and thinking. In this book, he has discussed Hebraism and Hellenism. In his book, he has also discussed various topics about true culture.
This experience pursued him to write 'Culture & Anarchy'.
It provided him so much time to meet the different classes and examine their behaviours and habits. He has the experience of twenty- four years as the inspector of schools. He is a poet, critic, religious thinker and educationist. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), a literary figure of the Victorian age, comes next to Browning and Tennyson.
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