The precision, definiteness, and accurate limitations of the method of the one, are usually unfriendly to the brooding, tentative, uncircumscribed meditation which is the productive humour in the other.
Morley reflects on the contrasting methods of thought between two intellectual approaches.
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We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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