Yet another danger to the permanence of our rule in India lies in the endeavours of well-intentioned faddists to regulate the customs and institutions of eastern races in accordance with their own ideas.
It is repeatedly asserted that proportional representation will encourage the undue representation of faddists and of sectional interests.
It was alleged that faddists would obtain undue representation; it is now complained, under some misapprehension, that independent political thought will fail to secure an adequate hearing.
Finally, I may observe that in Mysore we have the great advantage of being out of reach of the faddists of the House of Commons, who, for the sake of their votes, have to be humoured, whether the interests of India suffer or not.
There is no chance, for instance, of the opium faddists thrusting a Commission on the Mysoreans, and then making them pay for part of the expenses of the inquiry.
No highway robber has yet harrowed us with denunciations of the puling moralist who allows his child to suffer all the evils of poverty because certain faddists think it dishonest to garotte an alderman.
The unfortunate part is, that very often it is only the faddists who expound them, and they go off at a tangent.
Thus, common sense being affronted, all the rest of the teaching is likely to fall upon stony ground and only be received by the faddists in tune to this particular argument.
To-day it is the fashion; and the practice of State control, State support, the universality of State action, is such that it is those who oppose it who are now the faddists and the cranks.
We can all of us remember the day when the supporters of women's suffrage in England were a very small group of faddists indeed: we know what has happened there!
We can all of us remember the time when the talk of nationalization, the old State Socialist talk, was the talk of a few faddists who were everywhere ridiculed and despised.
They put faddists in their proper place, and let rounded common sense and wide experience in large affairs have their due influence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "faddists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
