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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The scholarly observer must render the mental and practical behavior of a group into terms available in his own mental resources, which should remain <\/em>personally felt, even while informed with a breadth of reference which will allow other educated persons to make sense of them. <\/em>But this must not be to substitute his own and his readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 conventions for the original, but to broaden his own perspective so that it can make a place for the other. Concretely, he must never be satisfied to cease asking \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbut why?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 until he has driven his understanding to the point where he has an <\/em>immediate, human grasp of what a given position meant, such that every nuance in the data is accounted for and withal, given the total of presuppositions and circumstances, <\/em>he could feel himself doing the same\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (p. 290).<\/p>\n

What I take this to mean for me personally is that I must come to the place where I can actually feel myself feeling, thinking, and doing what others felt, thought, and did through the split, and perhaps even sympathize with them. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t write about the split until I reach this point of detachment. In fact, this quote is an excellent guideline for all writers or anyone at all who wishes to work towards a more united world.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"