Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forced his theory even so far as to claim that the new method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper...
...nature. Science deals with what we see around us, with what is tangible; religion is something that has to do with the unseen and the future. Thus it is but natural that science should be the more popular among men. It is often objected against religion that it is narrow. There can be no doubt that in the church there is some narrowness. Different sects are always quarreling and with regard to unimportant points there come differences that break up whole towns and even sometimes cause wars. It is not only in religion, however, that there are different parties...
...look askance at each other and to feel that they have little in common. Yet college men are a part of the world and until they realize that they are citizens and that they have the duties and opportunities of citizens, they must be accounted narrow minded. As citizens, as intelligent beings, who are enjoying exceptional advantages, college men have a right to be a factor in the national thought and the national speech. The new plan asserts exactly this right. If debates are held as proposed, simultaneously throughout the country, and reports of the debates are published...
...spoiled by his college course would probably never have succeeded any better in business. True, the college man is four years behind the non-college man. But his adaptability and his knowledge ought to be of more service, in the long run, than four years of narrow training in the early stages of business. Men at college may spoil their own chances in business, but this is quite different from the college spoiling...
...object of all the work that has been done in the past. For him have his ancestors toiled for generations; for him has a college been founded, and for him has the world been growing better and happier ever since the beginning. But there can be no more narrow or dismal way of looking at one's life than to regard it as the perfection of all efforts of the past. Rather, it is but a step in the attainment of the final end. Every life should be a life of preparation, of helping others and making the world ready...