Theorist

Examples

• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You may take him as a symbol of the political theorist. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The notion is typical of the pitfalls in the path of any theorist who does not correct his logic by a constant reference to the movement of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And he was not simply a prophetic theorist; he was also a propagandist of the revolt of labour, the revolt of the so-called proletariat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The theorist is incompetent when he deals with socialism just because he assumes that men are determined by logic and that a false conclusion will stop a moving, creative force. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact--of absolute undeniable fact--from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When it seemed that no such system had ever been produced, I was on the point of damning the entire tribe of theorists from Plato to Marx. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It never occurred to either of these impractical theorists to call aloud on the chance of attracting their friends' attention. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The political theorists laid some claim to lighting up both the track and the goal, and so I turned to them for help. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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