The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew ArnoldAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: December 24, 1822
- Died: April 15, 1888
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