His business is to portray; but portray truly he cannot if he has any of that glib doctrinaire spirit, devoid of the insight which comes from instinctive sympathy.
Now a State is not a person, and is becoming less so every day, and the difficulty, which Professor Spenser Wilkinson indicates, is a doctrinaire difficulty, not a real one.
How do we know that these difficulties aredoctrinaire ones?
He was an orthodox Marxist of the most extreme doctrinaire type, and naturally inclined to the Bolshevik view.
The Bolsheviki with their doctrinaire Marxism had carried the doctrine of the class struggle to such extreme lengths that they virtually placed the great mass of the peasants with the bourgeoisie.
He has the German professor's minute knowledge of concrete facts, and his doctrinaire love of abstract principles, but he is not a mere scholar and teacher.
It is now admitted that the Socialists have been mere voting machines and doctrinaire opportunists.
Under a government like Prussia, where all the spiritual forces are mobilized, where Universities, Churches, and newspapers are subject to the State, there is nothing to counteract the doctrinaire spirit.
Wily, practical politicians, rather than statesmen of the doctrinaire type, they never dreamed of introducing uniformity and symmetry into the administration as a whole.
He claimed to be a man of principle--mistaking the clearness of doctrinaire ignorance for the certainty of honest knowledge.
The governor-generalship of Lord Metcalfe is almost the clearest illustration in the nineteenth century of the weakness of the doctrinaire in practical politics.
Separation was indubitably a dogma of philosophic radicalism; and yet it was not so much the influence of this metaphysical and doctrinaire belief which moved Whig opinion.
But Grey was unmistakably doctrinaireon the point.
His Majesty is at least as antagonistic as ever to the doctrinaire party in the Cabinet, and fears above all that if there were a partial dissolution it would be this factor which would be strengthened.
Mole came to see me and said many curious things--among others, that he "had a mission to purge the Government of doctrinaire influences.
He belonged to the doctrinaire party, and was several times in office under Louis Philippe.
In general he remained faithful to the doctrinaire party, and in 1852 was placed on the retired list with the rank of General of Brigade.
Besnardiere; the frequently agitated correspondence of Madame Adelaide during the re-entry last March of the doctrinaire Ministry, and some characteristic traits of M.
Unlike her doctrinaire son and successor, Joseph, Maria Theresa was of an eminently practical turn of mind.
More clearly than before was exhibited in this campaign the essentially bourgeois and doctrinaire character of the present Liberal party.
But Mr. Swinnerton, who is a novelist pure and simple, who follows no extravagant theory, has no doctrinaire axe to grind, seems bent on making shipwreck of his powers.
The overeducated mind fancies himself a doctrinaire when he is in point of fact only a disciple.
The colonial policy of the doctrinaire statesmen was no sooner understood than it was universally condemned, and they could not press proposals on the West Indies which the West Indians showed so little readiness to meet.
In 1879 the principles of doctrinaire treason were preferred.
A doctrinaire idealism is fraught with dire social evils; but an obstinate maintenance of the "practical man's" status quo is apt to bring about that very degeneration which justifies the doctrinaire.
The little doctrinaire in her revolted and she was pleased to be censorious.
And the little doctrinaire walked with head erect to the edge of the slope and studied intently the distant hills.
Having finished this oracular sentence, the doctrinaire took a long pinch of snuff, and began discoursing of other matters: and I too withdrew from the discussion, persuaded that I could not bring it to a better conclusion.
The Russians overturned the old order and submitted to the autocratic rule of a small group of doctrinaire Bolshevik socialists, because these men seemed to have something new to try.
She was, indeed, ever too much absorbed, by the experiences and duties of her successive moments, to find even the leisure of mind requisite for the manufacture of so doctrinaire a system.
Arrived at this point, would Milton take his stand upon doctrinaire republicanism, and lose sight of liberty in the attempt to secure equality, as his friends Vane, Overton, Bradshaw would have done?
The doctrinaire republican of to-day cannot understand how the man who approved the execution of the would-be despot Charles Stuart, should have been the hearty supporter of the real autocrat Oliver Cromwell.
Much also is to be imputed to the indifferentism and sometimes the anti-religious sentiment of an important and numerous class of doctrinaire politicians of which Jefferson may be taken as a type.
The Tiber was a Lethe, if we may believe the somewhat doctrinaireeulogium which Varus Vibiscus made of it: Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus.
The fault or misfortune of thedoctrinaire party was in creating old youth: they assumed the posture of sages, and dreamed of grafting a temperate power upon the absolute and excessive principle.
The doctrinaire Liberal seems to me to be just as much inclined to tyrannise as the doctrinaire Tory, and to use his authority on the side of suppression when it is convenient to do so, and against all his own principles.
