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In this respect they displayed a remarkable degree of open-mindedness and receptivity. They showed themselves avid of every contribution which they could glean from any source to the work of national reorganization, and even in Teutonized Bolshevism they apparently found helpful hints of timely innovations.
Arthur Stanley was one of the first boys to go to Rugby after the great Dr. Arnold took charge of the school, and an early illustration of his candor and open-mindedness is shown in his immediate and public appreciation of the splendid qualities of his master, at a time when Dr. Arnold was so generally abused, and even branded as an infidel. Dr.
The slant with which they got at things was different. Like her father, he had the mental rigidity that is death to open-mindedness. Briskly she returned to small talk. "You're only three up." Part 4 On their way back to the club house the safe man recurred to one phase of their talk. "You ought not to need any telling as to why I work, Alice." She shot one swift annoyed glance at him.
There is often an open-mindedness among the common people that is not vitiated by the grip of vested interests upon their unwarped judgments, and the people can be trusted in the long run to make good. Democracy is based upon the reliability of public opinion. The second kind of unorganized group is one that is on the way to becoming a permanent group sanctioned by society.
And don't yield to the awful temptation of saying, 'So many good, fine, reasonable people seem certain of this and that; I had better assume it to be true. It isn't better, it is only more comfortable. A great many more people suffer from making up their mind too early and too decisively than suffer from open-mindedness and the power to relate new experience to old experience.
Moderation and sincerity were the virtues which he was most eager to exhibit, and they were unquestionably the best trump cards he could play. Not only had he a firm grasp of facts and arguments, but he displayed a sense of measure and open-mindedness which enabled him to implant his views on the minds of his hearers.
They made a formidable parcel, but a little handle was supplied and the rector hurried out, swinging himself on a Tower Street car. It must not be thought that the whole of what is called modern criticism was new to Hodder. This would indeed be too much of a reflection on the open-mindedness of the seminary from which he had graduated.
The country's going to the dogs. I don't know what will straighten it out. DR. JONATHAN. Intelligence, open-mindedness, cooperation, Asher. Hum! You don't remember me, Timothy? TIMOTHY. Sure and I do, sir, though you were only a little lad. You mind me of your father, your smile, like. He was the grand, simple man! It's happy I am to see you back in Foxon Falls.
Hugh saw that life must be, for him at all events, a pilgrimage, in which, so long as his open-mindedness, his candour, his enthusiasm did not desert him, there were endless lessons to be learnt by the way. And thus he came back gratefully and wearily to his old life, his old friendships.
I would have open sanctuaries and open minds. Humanity has outgrown its childhood and demands more reasonable fare than that which sufficed for its needs in the nursery." "That you honestly suppose this to be so I cannot question; but what you term 'open-mindedness' implying a state of receptivity is in fact an utter rejection of all established spiritual truths.
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