Our interpretation has centered about his qualities as a person: his broad experience, his sensitiveness, his responsiveness, his powers of assimilation, his gift of expression, his concreteness as a representative of the world of culture, as a son of Italy, as a citizen of eternal Rome, as a member of the universal human family.
"Horace and His Influence"
Grant Showerman
The concreteness of detail just alluded to is characteristic only of the second and third chapters.
"Introduction to the Old Testament"
John Edgar McFadyen
My fundamental indebtedness is to my wife, by whom the ideas of this book were inspired, and through whose work in connection with the Laboratory School, existing in Chicago between 1896 and 1903, the ideas attained such concreteness as comes from embodiment and testing in practice.
"How We Think"
John Dewey