在现存的关于文化批评的专论中,金斯利很少被放在重要的位置来研究。更令人遗憾的是,他还多次被划入“非利士人”——即阿诺德当年称作“与文化为敌者”的范畴。事实上,“非利士人”所崇尚的,恰恰是金斯利所反对的,这种对立的根本缘由可以从金斯利的文化思想中找到。金斯利是著名的社会改革家,不过,在改革的起点问题上,他所持的观点与当时的大多数改革家不同。他始终抱有一个信念,即改革始于心灵。这一信念构成了他的总体文化观的灵魂。 In existing monographs on cultural criticism, Kingsley is rarely placed in an important position to study. What is even more regrettable is that he has also repeatedly been classified as a “Philistine” - the category Arnold once called the “enemy of culture”. In fact, what the “Philistines” advocates is exactly what Kingsley objected to. The fundamental reason for this opposition can be found in Kingsley’s cultural thought. Kingsley was a prominent social reformer, but at the beginning of the reform he held a different view than most of the reformers at the time. He always holds the belief that reform begins in the heart. This belief constitutes the soul of his overall cultural outlook.