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86. It was better covered by television and press than any event here since President Kennedys inauguration , and , since indifferent is almost as great a problem to the Negro as hostility, this was a plus. 87. But do not the challenge and the excitement of the critical problem as such lie in that ambivalence of attitude which allows us to recognize the intelligence and even the splendor of Merediths work, while, at the same time, we experience a lack of sympathy, a failure of any enthusiasm of response? 88. In this respect she resembled one of her favourite contemporaries, Mary Brunton, who would rather haveglided through the world unknown than been suspected of literary airsto be shunned, as literary women are, by the more pretending of their own sex, and abhorred, as literary women are, by the more pretending of the other! 89. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things. 90. To proceed thus is to set up a fivefold hypothesis that enables you to gather from the innumerable items cast up by the sea of experience upon the shores of your observation only the limited number of relevant datarelevant, that is, to one or more of the five factors of your hypothesis. | 
