The latter, at first, looked askance at these colleges and their propaganda, and often refused to accept their suggestions and advice on the ground that it was "mere theory," and that farmers could not be taught practical agriculture by mere "book men" and "theorizers."
"Rural Life and the Rural School"
Joseph Kennedy
Those theorizers who, led astray by the dark side of higher civilization, preach a community of goods, generally contemplate in their simultaneous recommendation of the emancipation of woman a more or less developed form of a community of wives.
"The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner"
Charles Dudley Warner
The socialistic theorizers all assume that Association is a step in advance of civilization.
"History of American Socialisms"
John Humphrey Noyes