Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
- Source
- Middlemarch
- Date
- 1871–1872
- Local voice
- Narrator voice · Narrator
Meaning of “It is a narrow mind which cannot look…”
Intellectual flexibility requires seeing how the same issue can appear from more than one position before settling on a judgment.
Where does it come from?
Middlemarch; the narrator contrasts narrow judgment with considering a subject from several points of view.
Why the local voice matters
The Middlemarch narrator makes this ironic observation while commenting on Mr. Brooke’s political and personal inconsistency.
