This system of education we are outgrowing more swiftly with each year.
We thus mistake our merely outgrowing our vices, or our relinquishing them from some change in our worldly circumstances, for a thorough, or at least for a sufficient, reformation.
There's nothing to be gained by plunging the poor fellow in despair, as long as any hope remains of her outgrowing it.
It always fails to catch up with ideal morality; it is always outgrowing traditional morality.
As for power, we are outgrowing all superstition about that.
The simple truth is that civilization has outgrown witchcraft, and is outgrowing the Christian Tartarus.
So far-reaching are these changes, and so deep running, that human society, particularly in the West, has outgrown or is outgrowing the life pattern evolved by civilizations during the past four or five millenia.
Each wasoutgrowing feudalism and producing a larger and larger group of businessmen, professionals, tradesmen, craftsmen and maturing a middle class and a proletariat.
A great many people have been accustomed to associate so much of their religion with the forms of their religious expression that they fancy that the world's outgrowing these means that religion is being outgrown.
Outgrowing various phases of orthodox religious zeal, outgrowing an unreasoned conservatism in political and social views, she took up all manner of novel causes, and made Rivenoak a place of pilgrimage for the apostles of revolution.
Gill-filaments may still be seen beyond the rim of the outgrowing operculum.
Now that Madame de Champlain had gone there was no real companionship for Rose, who was surely outgrowing her childish fancies.
Therefore all of them, upon outgrowing their primitive fetish and nature worship, gravitate inevitably into monotheism.
Italy's entrance upon the high seas was, therefore, reluctant and late, retarded by the necessity of outgrowing the old circumscribed outlook of the enclosed basin before adopting the wider vision of the open ocean.
The truth is, rather, that mankind is outgrowing theism in a gentle and steady way until it ceases to have any clear meaning.
Thank goodness, the civilized world is outgrowing the whole savage set of ideas.
Had I followed the advice of others who believed in the outgrowing theory it eventually would have caused me to become a confirmed stammerer, entirely beyond hope of cure.
There should be no dilly-dallying, no foolish belief in the possibility of outgrowing the trouble, for whatever chances once existed are now past.
The stammerer has no more chance of outgrowing his trouble than the road has of outgrowing the rut.
The man who suggests that it is possible to cure stammering by outgrowing it is doing a great injustice to the stammerer, because he is giving him a false hope--in fact the most futile hope that any stammerer ever had.
For me, there was no such thing as outgrowing it and I have since discovered that after the age of six only one-fifth of one per cent.
That means that one out of every hundred children affected has a chance, at least, of outgrowing the difficulty between the ages of three and six, and after that time, only one chance in five hundred.
I suppose we’re outgrowing each other,” suggested Hester, who was more or less anxious to account for the change, since Katharine was laying such great stress upon it.
I hope having a younger sister, and outgrowing baby charms may be salutary.
Here is suggested again the cause of infidelity, or the act of outgrowing the popular faith, which has characterized a portion of the disciples of nearly every form of religion known to history.
The people are rapidly outgrowing their creeds and dogmas.
Young Daniel had been well brought up in the mysteries of his father's craft, and having a vigorous turn of wrist, as well as a true eye and quick brain, he was even outgrowing the paternal skill, with experiments against experience.
Nations and individuals are slowly outgrowing the savagery of revenge, the desire to kill, and it is generally admitted that criminals should neither be imprisoned nor tortured for the gratification of the public.
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