Word: inhibitive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...society out of his usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent license, and that license is of a type to stunt and inhibit progress by destroying the effectiveness of a definite number of human beings in each generation, it is the clear duty of the state to step in and protect society from a part of itself, if necessary by compulsion. Beyond all doubt this clear duty may be performed satisfactorily...
...disordered curiosity to which almost every writer today panders is here ignored. The best criterion by which to determine the artistic worth of a narrative is the question, Are you eager to know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot or of some human problem. Interests are easy and perceptions difficult, yet to experience the present...