Evil remains for him nevertheless essential to the variety, and invested with the dignity of human life; and on no point does he detach himself so clearly from the humanitarian optimist who regards evil and its attendant sufferings as a mere disturbance to life.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
But of course, it is not everyone who cares for town life, and if you do not, you are quite right to detach yourself from it.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Now Jernington was a specialist, and he was one of those men who cannot detach their minds from the subject in which they specialize in order to take a broad view.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens