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But in fact, education is in many cases nothing more than a blind struggle of parents and guardians with the evolutions of some strong, predetermined character, individual, obstinate, unreceptive, and seeking by an inevitable law of its being to develop itself and gain free expression in its own way.
She couldn't have so impressed an idiot, or an illiterate, unreceptive man. Let me tell you how a hundred people were fooled lately." "I should be delighted to hear you tell it." "You should have sympathy for them, after your spiritualistic experience," said Mary with a smile. "There is a married couple in this city whom we will call Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, because those are not their names.
He had, too, a censorious word for the French commercially called them "peddlers," celebrated their deceitful wiles, underrated the quality of their cloths, and inconsistently berated them for their low prices, finding a logical parity in all these matters in the tenets of their religion, which they had so vainly and so zealously sought to instill into the unreceptive hearts of the unimpressionable Choctaw.
These were the things upon which her mind ran, and it was like meeting with opposition at every turn to find no one here to call forth or respond to her feelings. She had forgotten, in considering and explaining the result of her day, that Drouet might come. Now, when she saw how unreceptive these two people were, she hoped he would not.
Beyond these bounds neither Hellenism nor Christianity was fated in that age to strike deep roots or bear lasting fruit. The Farther East the East, that is to say, beyond Euphrates remained unreceptive and intolerant of both influences.
Arndt: "At the outset, the word of God finds all in the first unreceptive condition; we go away without experiencing its power, and remain in a state of nature, unconverted. Next, the word begins to take effect upon us, and we are awakened. Oh now the word of the Lord burns with a holy glow in our hearts! We give ourselves over with our whole souls in those first days of love.
The boy was silent for a spell; evidently he was trying to recall the exact formula which had been dinned into his unreceptive brain, and to repeat word for word the lesson which he had learned parrotwise.
It is not only that He is sad for their sakes that they are so unreceptive, and He can do so little for them I shall have something to say about that presently but that He feels for Himself, just as we do in our poor humble measure, the chilling effect of an atmosphere where there is no sympathy.
First comes the thought unreceptive of God's thought, and then follow ways contrary to God's ways. Notice the profound truth here in regard to the essential and deepest evil of all our evil. 'Your thoughts'; 'your ways, self-dependence and self-confidence are the master-evils of humanity.
Sometimes when your mood has been particularly, well, unreceptive, I have thought of going away so that I might write to you. Perhaps I could write more convincingly than I can talk." A cheering condition of things for a lawyer, he reflected. "But this is a different and much more particular thing," she insisted with a cruelty of which her interest made her unconscious.
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