However, the world cannot live up to the story-tellers "idealistic view" and we see with distress that our childhood tales had severely bent realism.
In another composition, I wrote these words: I look not for the ideal because idealisticindividuals are often quite disappointed when their "key" is ultimately bigger than the "lock.
The expanding humanitarian and idealistic movement was cut short by the Civil War, but the development of industrialism went on uninfluenced by the spirit of social progress which might have permeated it.
May the type of imagination, the chief manifestations of which we have just enumerated, be considered as identical with the idealistic imagination?
He enjoyed writing, and in the interview he attributed ideas to Bassett that would have been creditable to the most idealisticof statesmen.
Thatcher adored Allen: he had for him the deep love of a lioness for her cubs; but all this idealistic patter the boy had got hold of--God knew where!
One can find innumerable illustrations of this idealistic impatience with existing conditions among the many Russian subjects found in the foreign quarters of every American city.
We see idealistic endeavor on the one hand lost in ugly friction; the heat and burden of the day borne by mature men and women on the other hand, increased by their consciousness of youth's misunderstanding and high scorn.
Shakespeare could be idealistic when he dreamed, as he could be spiritual when he reflected.
Such thought is essentially the same that is found in the German romantic or idealistic philosophers, with whom Emerson's affinity is remarkable, all the more as he seems to have borrowed little or nothing from their works.
We were so terribly fooled with our idealistic hopes about the war .
Full of the purely idealistic doctrine that it is the union of love which brings souls together, he declared that whenever men assembled in his name, he would be in their midst.
Jesus was, at the same time, very idealistic in his conceptions, and very materialistic in his expression of them.
Jesus accepted it unreservedly, but always in the most idealistic sense.
An almost universal cause of their attitude is a sad lack of understanding of the great beauties of the normal, idealistic love act.
Women have not had the opportunity to know themselves, nor have they been permitted to give play to their inner natures, that they might create a morality practical, idealistic and high for their own needs.
Birth control does not propose to replace any of the idealistic movements and philosophies of the workers.
It is noticeable, however, that both James Ward and Josiah Royce, while belonging to the idealistic tradition coming down from Kant and Hegel, show the influence of a revolt from that tradition.
It would be opposed to materialistic monism, as well as to an idealistic or pantheistic monism which would reduce the evolutionary and historic process to mere appearance.
What I have said of the system of idealism, I would not, however, by any means wish to be applied to idealistic doubt.
In any case, however, this last instance forms the third stage of idealistic confusion, and certainly the last grade of scientific atheism.
It is very seldom, however, that this error shapes itself into a decidedly and completely idealistic view of the world, and a similar perfect system of science.
And for such a knowledge the task would ever be difficult to get rid of a mere idealistic conception of the Divine Being, or at least to repel the doubt whether He be actually any thing more than what such a conception represents Him.
Even in the judgment of theology, pantheism, as the one extreme of error on the side of nature, can scarcely appear less false and abominable than atheism as the other idealistic extreme.
But soon it became plain, that in this idealistic doctrine there was no room for any but a subjective reason-god devoid of all objective reality.
And in many points, as, for instance, in his notion of the absolute self-sufficiency of the reason, he approximates but too closely to the idealistic view which we have already designated as the transition to scientific atheism.
And the American has become so idealistic that he even idealises money.
She was an American lady who had seen Europe, and had never yet seen England, and she expressed her enthusiasm in that simple and splendid way which is natural to Americans, who are the most idealistic people in the whole world.
Here realism illustrates its service as a gatherer of knowledge which may hereafter be reduced to orderliness by idealistic processes, for idealism is the organizer of all knowledge.
First use of this kind of column for an idealistic conception.
It represented something new in being the first great column erected to express a purely imaginative and idealistic conception.
Are we to pursue the ideals of "All men are created free and equal" with the equally idealistic form of government, or are we to keep pace with our commercial and economic expansion and accept the complementary program of economic imperialism?
He may be honest, but he cares little for the idealistic honor of the days of knighthood.
The science of Promorphology has no historical significance; it is interesting only because it illustrates Haeckel's close affinity with theidealistic morphologists.
But evolutionary morphology for all practical purposes was a development of pure or idealistic morphology, and was powerless to bring to fruit the new conception with which evolution-theory had enriched it.
Another abortive science of Haeckel's, the science of Tectology, was equally a heritage from idealistic morphology.
A no less important influence clearly visible in the General Morphology is the idealistic morphology of men like K.
It is this country that is dangerous, with her idealistic conception of legality.
His old philosophical, speculative, idealistic bent is as completely in abeyance as though stricken with rudimentary palsy.
To poetic or reflective mind Karl's startling metaphors were harmless hyperbole or garrulous trope of brilliant, idealistic sentiment, but such fired credulous natures to white heat of anarchy.
There is something about the very word elevator that expresses a great deal of his vague but idealistic religion.
All the traditions of that democracy, and very creditable traditions too, are in favour of toleration and a sort of idealistic indifference.
Achilles Tatius is definitely less idealistic than Chariton in his treatment of the erotic theme.
Rohde claimed that the novella was realistic, the romance idealistic and hence declared that any derivation of the romance from the novella was impossible.
