Word: benightedness
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ESSAYS IN POPULAR SCIENCE? Julian S. Huxley?Knopf ($4). "There is a danger," says the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think...
You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;
On the single plane of two-dimensional Flatland, the inhabitants can, of course, see each other (and all things) only as straight lines. Fortunately, however, every Flatland creature has luminous edges; and there is chronic fog in Flatland, through the obscurity of which the slant of lines is quite apparent...
The erstwhile young scapegrace, it was touted, has brought back from the Occident more than a world-notorious name, has sown among his benighted people the priceless seeds of Western knowledge. . . . Cynics scented propaganda in the despatch, awaited more of the same from Sir Hari's highly paid and...
He is very quiet and unaffected, speaks in a low quiet voice, has a twinkle in his greenish grey eyes. One can judge readily enough that he would not take a drink nowadays, not for any hypocritical reasons but because he would regard it as lawbreaking. In fact, he seems...