Word: believerism
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Says Charles Francis Adams, Jr., "I am no believer in that narrow scientific and technological training which now and again we hear extolled. A practical and too often a mere vulgar money-making utility seems to be its natural outcome. On the contrary the whole experience and observation of my...
"And let me say here that I am a strong believer in the educational value of such houses and surroundings as this. All the education of a college course is by no means given in classrooms. What has given to the educated men of England and Germany that peculiar ripeness...
"We were sure we could find the way, although we had never been to the place before. After walking for a short distance the path which we had taken branched off from the main road. After hesitating a moment we decided to follow the path. It was skirted by dense...
I am no iconoclast. On the contrary, I am an implicit believer in everything old and sanctioned by custom. I do not say that these customs of ours should be given up because they are silly, but that they should be clung to tenaciously because they are old.
Thus the author of "Indifference again," as it seems to me, was wrong in co-ordinating laziness and superficial ideas as causes of indifference; since indifference is laziness, though superficial ideas may quite probably be the causes of laziness. But the authors who have sought the origin of our indifference...