... of the Philistinism thatArnold, Mill, and the Union in the sArnold identifies in the Study,asinCulture and Anarchy, as the viciousvirtue of the English. ‘‘Here, then, if commingling there ... rather than an ‘‘impassable gulf’’ that separates and divides. In race, in language, in literature, too, ‘‘science exercises the reconciling, the uniting in uence’’ in uncovering ‘‘traces of kinship, ... for the elimination of difference, whether by trans-forming the Irish or by simply excluding them from the English nation,Arnold presents cultural variety within the United Kingdom, and withinEnglishness...