Literature and Dogma

by Matthew Arnold

'La tendance à l'ordre ne peut-elle faire une partie essentielle de nos inclinations, de notre instinct, comme la tendance à la conservation, à la reproduction?'

Senancour.

('May not the tendency to conduct form an essential part of our inclinations, of our instinct, like the tendency to self-preservation, to the reproduction of the species?')

LITERATURE & DOGMA

AN ESSAY TOWARDS

A BETTER APPREHENSION OF THE BIBLE

BY

MATTHEW ARNOLD

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE

POPULAR EDITION

LONDON

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE

1883

[All rights reserved]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	introduction	1
I.	religion given	8
II.	aberglaube invading	46
III.	religion new-given	60
IV.	the proof from prophecy	80
V.	the proof from miracles	87
VI.	the new testament record	111
VII.	the testimony of jesus to himself	124
VIII.	faith in christ	141
IX.	aberglaube re-invading	149
X.	our 'masses' and the bible	175
XI.	the true greatness of the old testament	195
XII.	the true greatness of christianity	213
	conclusion	227