Word: judgemental
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...cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...
...such a compilation is determined primarily by three things; completeness, logical arrangement, and accuracy. In the first two respects the 1924-25 Register would seem to surpass all previous editions; accuracy can only be established by use and extended study of the material. Of course a snap and popular judgement is usually based on whether or not one's own name is correctly speeled, but to all appearances the new edition is as accurate as any such listing could be and a good deal more so than most...
There are other observers who are not so sure of this. Many currents and and cross-currents are at work in India at present making accurate judgement difficult. On the one hand, as Mr. Otto Rothfeld points out, a growing capitalism is overthrowing traditional economic institutions. In the wake of an industrial revolution have appeared materialistic tendencies in thought. This has brought all the force of Hindu idealism in revolt against importations of Western methods and ideas...
...admit that I have eaten better cooking, but I also have eaten some worse. The protests cannot be justified, otherwise our directors, whom we may credit with some judgement, would have altered the state of things...
...test reform with public opinion appears to be a way of avoiding concrete suggestions, but unfortunately it is the public judgement of values which must be changed: and it cannot be changed if public opinion is not conscious of the role it is playing. Keys and ribbons and other tinsel will be of no avail if the effectual public opinion remains grossly ignorant of the error of its ways...