A nation producing the means to disseminate widely, to a vast public, the news and opinions of the day and possessing democratic institutions of government is unlikely to be in possession of that "sweetness and light" which Arnold so championed and advocated. 6ĥIt is here sufficient to note the contrasting of journalism and intelligence, politics and culture to be aware of the parameters of Arnold's criticism of America. When he says that America, that chosen home of newspapers and politics, is without general intelligence, we think it likely, from the circumstances of the case, that this is so and that, in the things of the mind, and in culture and totality, America, instead of surpassing us all, falls short ( Culture and Anarchy, p.
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