Word: comprehendingly
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...finished the single column that remains, one wishes that he had hesitated longer. In striving for a judicial tone he is led to say that Joel Rogers's verse is bolstered by music, "rick music"--"and by sincerity". Munificent patronage,--but a betrayal of his incapacity to comprehend the very word. One of his phrases, "intellectualized prose" is enough to prove that prose can be deintellectualized...
This reaction, blurred in all cases by local issues, is not a complete repudiation of socialistic tendencies, but is an expedient adopted because socialism in practice has been found an idea with too few heads to comprehend. There still remains in opposition a strong liberal element which will ride the wagon but not steer...
Minute as this position appears, there is no reason to be overcome with dizziness in reading the figures. In mathematics and philosophy "infinity" is referred to so often and so casually that it becomes a commonplace. And infinity is far more difficult to comprehend than a comparatively small number like 660,000,000,000,000,000 miles, the distance to the Magellanic Cloud at present. It would take 1,130,000,000,000 years of constant walking to cover the distance, or--in more familiar terms,--a Dudley Street car might make it in 1,134,000,000,000 years...
Vast changes lie ahead. Intelligence divines them. Creative thought strives to comprehend and forecast. It must of necessity sap the foundations of men's little systems-the very systems which they struggle to sustain by gifts of money...
...this, as a teacher of Christian doctrines, he has had a great deal to do with the natives themselves, and knows their habits and customs, as well as their point of view. It is the Hindu point of view which the world at large must understand in order to comprehend the Ghandi revolt against English rule, which has completely transformed India, and changed it from a nation of submissive onlookers to one of active revolutionists...