Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirits are necessary in religion. Culture is needed to keep the mass of the people from making religion narrow and emotional and the enthusiastic, devotional spirit of the people is necessary to keep up the spirit of love and hope. Let us try then to have the truest culture which is perfect sympathy for every man and respect for his opinions. And let us all remember that if we care anything for religion and the spirit of Christ it is our duty to show that spirit throughout our lives...
...interested in political questions and in the welfare of the country. We see its necessity in our courts of law and in our legislature. Not only this. It enters into the life of every man in so far as he moves out of his own narrow sphere. If, for example, a new car line is to be encouraged or discouraged, it is the duty of every interested man to appear before the council and present his views...
Especially is criticism a comparative science demanding the contemporaneous presence in the memory of many conclusions arrived at through much mistake, much change of opinions adopted on a too narrow basis of facts for a true induction. Impartiality of judgment is incompatible with anything but entireness of view, and that entireness is only approximately attainable as the resultant average of divers impressions, the issue of as many moods. It was the many-sidedness of Goethe's culture that made him so sane and sure a judge. Ruskin has been accused of inconsistency only because he has made us partakers...
...believe that truth in its best sense is to be found in any narrow or confined circle of study, but much rather in expatiation over many fields. And we should never forget that fine saying of Lessing's: "Not the truth which one has arrived at, or thinks he has arrived at, but the honest zeal with which he has endeavored to follow truth makes the worth of a man. For it is not through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes...
...this moment, when the narrow Philistinism, which has long had things its own way in England, is showing its natural fruits, and we are beginning to feel ashamed and uneasy, and alarmed at it; now, when we are becoming aware that we have sacrificed to Philistinism culture, and insight, and dignity, and acceptance, and weight among the nations, and hold on events that...