the wood, and would not let him come back.
"It is true for all that," said the owl.
And so it was.—The Nursery.
(1668)
INTRODUCTIONS
Some introductions to sermons, speeches, articles, etc., would gain if they were made as brief as the speech of this mayor:
"Long introductions when a man has a
speech to make are a bore," said former
Senator John C. Spooner, according to The Saturday Evening Post. "I have had all
kinds, but the most satisfactory one in my
career was that of a German mayor of a
small town in my State, Wisconsin.
"I was to make a political address, and the opera-house was crowded. When it came time to begin, the mayor got up.
"'Mine friends,' he said, 'I have asked been to introduce Senator Spooner, who is to make a speech, yes. Vell, I haf dit so, und he vill now do so.'"
(1669)
Intruders—See Ingratitude.
Intrusion—See Trivial Causes.
INTUITION
What is true in music, according to R. H. Haweis, is equally true of all intuitive processes:
To accompany well you must not only be
a good musician, but you must be mesmeric,
sympathetic, intuitive. You must know what
I want before I tell you; you must feel
which way my spirit sets, for the motions of
the soul are swift as an angel's flight. I can
not pause in those quick and subtle transitions
of emotion, fancy, passion, to tell you
a secret; if it is not yours already, you are
unworthy of it. Your finishing lessons in
music can do nothing for you. Your case
is hopeless. You have not enough music in
you to know that you are a failure.
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INTUITIVE JUDGMENT
Mill cites the following case, which is
worth noting as an instance of the extreme
delicacy and accuracy to which may be developed
this power of sizing up the significant
factors of a situation. A Scotch manufacturer
procured from England, at a high rate
of wages, a working dyer famous for producing
very fine colors, with the view of
teaching to his other workmen the same skill.
The workman came; but his method of proportioning
the ingredients, in which lay the
secret of the effects he produced, was by
taking them up in handfuls, while the common
method was to weigh them. The manufacturer
sought to make him turn his
handling system into an equivalent weighing
system, that the general principles of his
peculiar mode of proceeding might be ascertained.
This, however, the man found himself
quite unable to do, and could therefore
impart his own skill to nobody. He had,
from individual cases of his own experience,
established a connection in his mind between
fine effects of color and tactual perceptions
in handling his dyeing materials; and from
these perceptions he could, in any particular
case, infer the means to be employed and
the effects which would be produced.—John
Dewey, "How We Think."
(1671)
Invention—See Ambition.
Invention and Employment—See Value
of One Man.
Inventions—See Labor-saving Devices.
Inventions, Worthless—See Disappointment.
Inventive Possibilities—See Future Possibilities.
INVESTMENT RETURN
The Rev. John F. Goucher established many vernacular Christian schools in the villages of India.
An American traveler in northern India,
strolling on the platform when the train had
come to a standstill, saw a native who drew
near, eyed him closely, then fell before him,
clasped him about the ankles, and beating
his feet with his head, cried, "I am your servant,
and you are my savior!"
The traveler bade the man get up and say what he had to say. The native at length exprest himself: "You are Dr. Goucher, of America, are you not? All that I am and have I owe to you. Hearing that you were traveling through on this train, I walked more than twenty miles just to see your train pass. Now God has let me look into your face."
Thousands of young Indians in the north-*west provinces of India call themselves "Goucher Boys," and look upon a man in distant America, whom they have never seen, as their friend and emancipator.—William T. Ellis, "Men and Missions."
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