Word: imperfectability
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...suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with an imperfect sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction in such evidences of intellectual activity as Mr. Seldes's eassy undoubtedly presents. The only piece of verse in the number, Mr. Greene's "The Heritage," is flat and prosaic...
...President Taft took a middle position on the question of parties and principles, declaring that at present, parties, though imperfect, afford the only practical means of interpreting the opinion of the voters. The main theme of his address, however, concerned the present coition of the courts. He declared that "in many places the administration of civil justice is a disgrace to this country. In the western states, particularly, the people have harmed the courts to an extent that is almost irremediable. The same change that has characterized the wanton election of judges has extended to other offices...
Greek philosophy from Plato to Plotinus tried to reach its solution through reason by the conception of general ideas of which reality is mere imperfect correspondence. Reality was thus considered inferior to the idea, action inferior to contemplation. But this did not rescue the individual soul from death, since the "idea" was general, not individual...
...Lane was appointed to the office five years ago, nothing was printed here except official departmental pamphlets, catalogues, examinations and various reports. The establishment of the Press means that this business which has been carried on practically without capital, and therefore in a very limited way and with imperfect means, will now have a substantial working capital...
...connection with the University Faculty in 1870 as a tutor in Greek and became Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity in 1889. Besides being an authority on questions of ethics, he is the author of several books, some of which are: "The Glory of the imperfect," "Self Cultivation in English," and "The Field of Ethics...