It is ridiculous to suppose we can do so by returning to the ignorance and prejudiceof our ancestors.
There was a prejudice against the butter which could not be got over; and the cheese--well, the cheese resembled a tablet of dark soap.
But it is characteristic of agricultural life that a man with the stigma of penal servitude can return and encounter no overpowering prejudice against him.
The predominant prejudice of writing in Latin was first checked in Germany, France, and England by the leaders of that great Revolution which opposed the dynasty of the tiara.
Curiosity has been excited to learn the occasion of the inveterate prejudice of an insensible Lord Treasurer against a tender poet, who had courted his favour.
The popular prejudice was confirmed by narratives of witchcraft, by Joseph Glanvil, one of the early founders of the Royal Society; by the visionary learning of the platonic Dr.
This awful prejudice broke out afresh under the fanatical government, and gave rise to an infamous class of men who were called "witch-finders.
The vernacular idiom in Italy was still so little in repute, while the prejudice in favour of the Latin was so firmly rooted, that their youths were prohibited from reading Italian books.
Latin tongue; but such was the prejudice in favour of the ancient language, that notwithstanding that the Latin of the bar had degenerated into the most ludicrous barbarism, the lawyers were unwilling to yield to the popular wish.
This prejudice of the venerable brotherhood may, I think, be traced to its source.
Catherine Vernon was still in the region of prejudice and dislike.
They were engaged, as against theprejudice of ages, in the assertion of human dignity.
Prejudice can be detected, discounted, and refined, but so long as finite men must compress into a short schooling preparation for dealing with a vast civilization, they must carry pictures of it around with them, and have prejudices.
Except where we deliberately keep prejudice in suspense, we do not study a man and judge him to be bad.
It was intended that they should manage national affairs when local prejudice had been brought into equilibrium by the constitutional checks and balances.
The stream of public opinion is stopped by them in little eddies of misunderstanding, where it is discolored with prejudice and far fetched analogy.
For while intuition does give a fairer perception of human feeling, the reason with its spatial and tactile prejudice can do little with that perception.
No doubt Hamilton, who belonged to this class by adoption, had a human prejudice in their favor.
A popular prejudice on the part of the majority sets down such dances as too exciting for the sensitive dancers.
I cannot help thinking if he had not approached the subject with a certain amount of prejudice he would have been content to "Try again.
I respect piety, and hope I have some after my own fashion, but I have a profound prejudice against the efflorescent form of it.
Of all the burning questions connected with the Origin of Species, this was the most heated--the most surrounded by prejudice and passion.
I analyze the handicap thus: 24 per cent of it is the prejudice and unbelief of the public, and the other 1 per cent is the lack of eyesight.
Let us study the problem with an open mind, freed from the old prejudice and unbelief; let us turn the light on ourselves, and see that it is we who sit in darkness.
Still, her reticence had aroused deeper prejudice on Lady Marth's side than need have been drawn out; and Mr Dunstan's manner and tone increased it.
You cannot have any prejudiceagainst my dear old home, and where else could we go which would be so sure to be home, where we should at once be known and welcomed?
It is not that I have any prejudice against the girls.
Being well aware of the common prejudice against her complexion, she feared that some one might be offended by her company at their meals.
In the Free States of his own country he had been excluded from many places of improvement, and often insulted on account of his color; but he had no such prejudice to encounter in England.
It had no constitutional change to seek, no interest to promote, no prejudice to gratify, not even the national welfare to advance.
We ask this in no spirit of censure or cavil, for we have no prejudice against the school of spiritualistic literature, save where it militates against the faith in our Redeemer.
He has hopes of some of the Indians; but his fellow-traders endeavoured to prejudice them against him.
This will never do for me; and, I am persuaded, such conduct tends much to the dishonour of God, and to the prejudice of your own precious soul.
He bluntly urged that the concession would prejudice his right and his honour, bring discredit on the Church, and enable Bruce to make capital of his wrong-doing.
They explained that it was the custom of Holy Mother Church, during the pendency of a question, not to say or write anything calculated to prejudice either party.
So I thought to myself, Now if you cozen him out of his money, that will prejudice a thousand others; for he will lose his precious trustfulness, and many unfortunate but worthy men will suffer, because one was worthless.
The prejudice continued to the close of the sixteenth century.
If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same; and as several of our passions are strongly characterized by the animal world, prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.
It did not prejudice the author with this pope, who nevertheless was the first who threatened those with excommunication that read a prohibited book!
Of prejudice it has been truly said by Basil Montagu, in a note to one of his publications, that "it has the singular ability of accommodating itself to all the possible varieties of the human mind.
It is not too much to say that a prejudice frequently exists against a man conspicuously qualified by knowledge, experience, and character for a given post.
But as soon as the race of the painter became known, European prejudice made itself manifest.
This is the strong gospel referred to; the gospel that fires the masses with hate and prejudice against the only means of human redemption.
The world is getting kinder, more sympathetic, more charitable; creed lines are dissolving like snow under an April sun; sectarian prejudice is dying under the withering frown of new ideals.
The Spaniards, by the way, have a strange prejudice in favour of Roman-nosed horses.
Anyhow it will show him we’ve no prejudice in the matter.
The rational human faith must armour itself with prejudice in an age of prejudices.
To do so starts a prejudice hard to eradicate in the minds of parents and brothers and sisters, and the visit may prove a failure.
But he was a man of great good sense, as free from ancient prejudice as from modern theory, and he never lost sight of the public interest in favour of a class.
As a Genevese republican he approached the study of French affairs with no prejudice towards monarchy, aristocracy, or Catholicism.
I can find no excuse for John Marchmont's prejudice against an industrious and indefatigable young man, who was the sole support of two helpless women.
He was content to wear threadbare cloth, but adhered most obstinately to a prejudice in favour of clean linen.
Pope John seems clearly to have understood that the opposition to Methodius arose rather from prejudice of race than from ecclesiastical principle; and he recognised this fact in the Bull which sanctioned the Slavonic ritual.
This prejudice was one of the confusions arising out of the use of a metal currency.
Next, he must examine himself as to the possibility of latent prejudice; and as prejudicemay be unconsciously inherited, he must include in the sphere of his examination ancestral and national bias.
And so great was the amount of prejudice and fear of offending the powers that were, at that time, that it would have had to be a very strong lawyer that would dare to risk doing so, and where was such to be found?
Every stratagem will be used by my persecutors and by that portion of the Press which adheres to them to excite a feeling of prejudice against me.
Mr. Carlile: Then I cannot see what will bear on my case; prejudice has been excited against me, and I am to be crushed.
