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Who defended humanism in Victorian England by defining culture as “the best that is known and thought in the world”?

ASamuel Johnson

BWilliam Blake

CMatthew Arnold

DEdmund Spenser

Answer:

C. Matthew Arnold

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Arnold, a Victorian thinker, believed that culture was essential to human development and described poetry as “a criticism of life”.


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