In other words, when it comes to the choice of our law-makers, reducing provincialism to a system we make the local numerical majority supreme, and any one is considered competent to legislate.
But, compared with the provincialism of the South of 1860, he is a cosmopolitan.
In its histories, the note of provincialism still lingers,--inevitably, and not blamably.
With this went a kind of provincialism of thought, bred from the wide difference which slavery made from the life of the world at large.
A man big of brain and warm of heart he had gone from the ironclad provincialism of South Carolina to the windswept vagaries of Texas.
Provincialism in time is as fatal to judgment as the more notorious sort, and a defective sense of proportion is at the root of both.
They were, in short, ordinarily provincial, without, however, the rude durability or the homely truthfulness ofprovincialism at its best.
The first effect of the introduction of competition in any society is to break up all types of isolation and provincialism based upon lack of communication and contact.
In these go-ahead days their provincialism stared out even more than it used to.
If his audiences were composed of people of the jaunty and shallow provincialism of J.
Our critical estimates have laboured under the incubus of New England provincialism: a provincialism preserved in miniature in the first pages of Lowell’s essay on Thoreau.
In one instant she was doubtful whether or not to be angry, and in the next grew ashamed of the provincialism which had caused her to suspect an insult.
Nor could Hodder's years of provincialism permit him to forget that this man with whom he was about to enter into personal relations was a capitalist of national importance.
Community loyalty will give rise to a true provincialism which will do much to give smaller communities a satisfactory status and to make them more independent in their standards and purposes.
We have outgrown the provincialism that thought is back of substance, as well as the old Platonic absurdity, that ideas existed before the subjects of thought.
All discoveries become almost immediately the property of the whole civilized world, and all thoughts are distributed by the telegraph and press with such rapidity, that provincialism is almost unknown.
She was willing to make any sacrifice; she considered herself just a missionary of provincialism up North, where people had become so cosmopolitan that they dared not enjoy anything.
Isolation is the soil of ignorance, and ignorance is the soil of egotism; and nations, like individuals who live apart, mistake provincialism for perfection, and hatred of all other nations for patriotism.
The same was true in our own country, and here, too, was in a great degree, the provincialism of the Old World.
The civilized man, having outgrown the ignorance, the arrogance, and the provincialism of savagery, abandons the vain search for final causes, for the nature and origin of things.
He lost the provincialism of his youth and became in a very noble sense a citizen of the world.
In this light, provincialism or local patriotism is a prolific source of good, and may be regarded as among the most valuable and beautiful emanations of the parish life of our country.
I didn't know there were so many kinds of people and so many sorts of provincialism in the world.
It is a provincialism quite permissible in the West," said Marion.
Its growth has been so marvelous that in a single generation the simple garb of provincialism has been exchanged for the more imposing mantle of a great city.
When I was in Washington last spring, I felt almost like another woman; in fact I don't believe it is anything but the provincialism of Chicago which is putting me in such states of mind.
Onto," in the first paragraph, is a provincialism which should be superseded by "to.
Webster clearly describes "onto" as a low provincialism or colloquialism.
No more striking illustration of this could be found than his constant charge of provincialism made against this country.
The taint of provincialism was diffused over all feelings and beliefs.
There were in the novel, to be sure, the remarks that had now got to be habitual with Cooper upon the provincialism of the whole country; but it was upon New York city that the vials of his wrath were especially poured.
Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely.
There is as genuine a provincialism in Paris as in the remotest frontier town; it is better dressed and better mannered, but it is not less narrow and vulgar.
This liberation from provincialism is not only one of the signs of culture, but it is also one of its finest results; it registers a high degree of advancement.
The essence of provincialism is the substitution of a part for the whole; the acceptance of the local experience, knowledge, and standards as possessing the authority of the universal experience, knowledge, and standards.
For the man who has passed beyond the prejudices, misconceptions, and narrowness of provincialism has gone far on the road to self-education.
