keannu
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I don't understand the underlined, I can't never get what it means. Can someone be so kind to explain it to me ?
ex)How difficult it is to propose something for someone else to judge without affecting his judgement by the way we do it! If you say 'I think it is excellent', 'I think it is obscure', or something like that, you either persuade his imagination to agree with you or irritate it, in the opposite sense. It is better to say nothing, and then he can judge according to what it really is and according to the way in which other circumstances over which we have no control have affected the issue.
But at least we shall have added nothing, unless our silence also produces an effect, according to the interpretation he may feel like giving to it, or according to what he may guess from our gestures and expression, or tone of voice. It is so difficult to remove judgement from its natural basis.
ex)How difficult it is to propose something for someone else to judge without affecting his judgement by the way we do it! If you say 'I think it is excellent', 'I think it is obscure', or something like that, you either persuade his imagination to agree with you or irritate it, in the opposite sense. It is better to say nothing, and then he can judge according to what it really is and according to the way in which other circumstances over which we have no control have affected the issue.
But at least we shall have added nothing, unless our silence also produces an effect, according to the interpretation he may feel like giving to it, or according to what he may guess from our gestures and expression, or tone of voice. It is so difficult to remove judgement from its natural basis.