Intellectual thoroughness is thus another name for the attitude
we are considering
Intellectual thoroughness is thus another name for the attitude
we are considering. There is a kind of thoroughness which is
almost purely physical: the kind that signifies mechanical and
exhausting drill upon all the details of a subject. Intellectual
thoroughness is seeing a thing through. It depends upon a unity
of purpose to which details are subordinated, not upon presenting
a multitude of disconnected details. It is manifested in the
firmness with which the full meaning of the purpose is developed,
not in attention, however ‘conscientious’ it may be, to the steps
of action externally imposed and directed.
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