Word: intellection
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...with music, speeches, refreshments. He made the newly-fledged, exalted citizens feel important. After only two years he was elevated to the Supreme Court, where his rugged personality lent a certain tonic atmosphere. He was impatient of refinement of argument, preferring by nature a certain blunt honesty of the intellect. He was one of the Justices who dissented when the Child Labor Law was first held unconstitutional. He broke the tradition of the Supreme Court that its members should make no public speeches. When invited to speak, he said what he had to say. As early as 1918, even before...
...everything and human forces nothing. He strove to realize it by methods that were as horrible as any that Nero in ancient Rome or the worst inquisitor of the middle ages used. There has not been in history a man who so well exemplified the hellishness of a great intellect utterly barren of the noble influences that come from the heart...
...buyer of a dinosaur egg, unless the buyer be a Museum, seems in worse case even than the collector of old books--or certain old books. There are of course old books which have in their content more or less value for the intellect. And there are old books which fell like lead upon their ago and generation and which by their bindings and beautiful print and wooden illustrations appeal only to the eye. But an object d'art practically the only value of which lies in its use as a test of human muscle must fall in the lowest...
...ever sat in the President's chair who was more genuinely a democrat or held more tenaciously to his faith in democracy than Woodrow Wilson, but no other man ever sat in the President's chair who was so contemptuous of all intellect that was inferior to his own or so impatient with its laggard processes...
...performance of a given ritual as the essence of Christianity. He said that religion must be freed of the irrelevant entanglements, the artificial adhesions, that do not matter, and he stressed the absurdity of the idea that the college man is not a Christian, because he "has had his intellect liberated by that luminous and illuminating view of the universe that has come to us in the concept of evolution...