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It is better to be skeptical of all new ideas and to insist upon being shown rather than to rush around in a continuous brainstorm after every new idea. Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization. Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas.

When night comes he will sup with the king, queen, and princess; and all the time he will never take his eyes off her, stealing stealthy glances, unnoticed by those present, and she will do the same, and with equal cautiousness, being, as I have said, a damsel of great discretion.

I was swayed by cautiousness more than anything else at the moment, but I fancy that deep down in my mind was a primitive longing to settle with the man without having recourse to the law. At any rate no policeman in the country would have arrested him on the description I gave. "It's a pity he got away," said the sergeant when I'd finished. "It looks as if he's the man. What was taken, Mr.

Next behind Cautiousness comes Coolness or Coldness, which is both a mental and physical quality, behind which we have a region of Repose, the tendency of which is toward sleep. Below Coolness we have a region marked Force, which gives energy and impulse without the violence that is developed lower down. Immediately over the ear is the region of Irritability, the antagonist of Patience.

There was something so characteristically guarded and secretive in the movement that Blake knew it was Copeland even before he let his gaze wheel around to the newcomer. About the entire figure, in fact, he could detect that familiar veiled wariness, that enigmatic and self-concealing cautiousness which had always had the power to touch him into a quick irritation. "Mr.

She was sorry Perhaps he had made all the mystery of love a mechanical cautiousness but She fled from the thought with a dubious, "Some day." Her "reforms," her impulses toward beauty in raw Main Street, they had become indistinct. But she would set them going now. She would! She swore it with soft fist beating the edges of the radiator.

If there were a science of life as there is one of mechanics, we could plan our lives scientifically and run no risks; but as it is, we must together or apart take our chance: cautiousness and recklessness divide the great stock of regrets pretty equally.

Even now," he added after a pause, "the cautiousness, the dread of change which comes with old age might, I think, lead me to be afraid of it if I didn't perceive behind it the spirit of Horace Bentley." It struck Holder, suddenly, what an unconscious but real source of confidence this thought had likewise been to him. He spoke of it. "It is not that I wouldn't trust you," the bishop went on.

Strange that the Boers did not advance after their victory; stranger still that they retired from Dordrecht. Never mind whether their stillness be due to national cautiousness or good defensive arrangements. Since they don't want Dordrecht, let us go there; and there we go accordingly.

Railways, steamships, aeroplanes, telegraphy, telephony and cinematographs have all emerged from the region of "impossibilities." Röntgen-rays and radium have descended from the sphere of miracles. Experience should endow us with cautiousness in proclaiming impossibilities of the future.