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At present I am in charge of a gang of workmen. Every man on this ship belongs to that gang, you with the rest. I ask you to look at the matter fairly, honestly, open-mindedly. You accuse me of being high-handed. I return the charge. It's you who are high-handed. You set yourself above your fellow-unfortunates. You refuse to abide by the will of the majority. I represent the majority.
But if you search open-mindedly, you will probably find some underlying agreement. Perhaps, though you disagree about this particular movie, you both are craving to see some good movie; and if you look up the advertisements, you can find one that will delight you both.
But I felt extraordinarily like a traitor to the India-rubber plant, I suppose for all that nothing had been said... "Your aunt makes Game of people," was Marion's verdict, and, open-mindedly: "I suppose it's all right... for her." Several times we went to the house in Beckenham for lunch, and once or twice to dinner. My aunt did her peculiar best to be friends, but Marion was implacable.
He is selfish, heartless, cruel, disloyal, lazy, and nasty. He has hurt me terribly, but I'll get even. I'm going to make him suffer the way he's made me suffer. I'll show him that he can't do that to me!" One may grapple courageously. This means to look the situation squarely in the face, to study it calmly, open-mindedly, and thoroughly.
"What do you think of this fellow Witla?" Colfax would ask White from time to time, and when these occasions offered he was not slow to drive in a wedge. "He's an able fellow," he said once, apparently most open-mindedly. "It's plain that he's doing pretty well with those departments, but I think you want to look out for his vanity. He's just the least bit in danger of getting a swelled head.
'I see, said Mother, gazing open-mindedly into his face; 'but where does my help come in, please? She leaned back, half-sighing, half-smiling. 'Here's my life' she held up her needles 'and that's the soul of prosaic dulness, isn't it? 'On the contrary, he answered eagerly, 'it's reality. It's courage, patience, heroism.
They said: "Sir Sganarelle, please do not talk like that. Our philosophy bids us talk of everything open-mindedly: and therefore you ought not to say: 'That is nasty rubbish! but: 'It seems to me that that is nasty rubbish.... But it is not certain that it is so. It may be a masterpiece. Who can say that it is not?" There was no danger of their being accused of tyranny over the arts.
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