The world of politics and commerce, the world of faith and intelligence tend, it would seem, already, towards that synthetic development foreseen in 1855, by one whom the obtuse world may yet have reason enough to recognize as one of the clearest-Brained statesmen of the nineteenth century, though her trade was poetry not politics-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, when she said of the future: "What I expect is a great development of Christianity in opposition to the churches, and of humanity generally in opposition to the nations."
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
And yet, in these very rooms, her father had urged her to consider; consideration simply wasn't in that feather-Brained little head of hers in those days.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
Why is it that big-Brained, well-balanced men fall for this rot?
"The Come Back"
Carolyn Wells