horizons are much broader; indeed so far as worldly affairs are concerned, most people would say he had the enlightened broad-minded outlook which is required of men who are at the head of affairs. The reason that most people prefer to entrust their country's business to such men, rather than to parochially minded people, is that they recognise that the broad-minded man is much more capable, and much more likely to make sensible decisions within the sphere of action in which he has to deal.
On the other hand even the man with an international outlook has his limitations; his outlook is much more limited than that of the biologist or the astronomer. They view the world virtually in terms of eternity; whereas the politician views it in terms of decades at the most.
Now it must surely be a matter of fairly common experience that it is little use discussing things with a parochially minded person, unless one is prepared to see things from his point of view. He cannot see things from your point of view; with a bit of an effort you can see things from his. So in our present idiom, you have to project yourself, so that your outlook or consciousness is similar to his. Then you may be able to agree with him about something, or even better to wean him away from his narrow views. But if you cling to your attitude as doggedly as he clings to his, you will get nowhere with him.
Nevertheless, no-one who has had a liberal education would ever dream of sinking himself in a parochial outlook. He would regard it as a degradation, and rightly think it a denial of his education. To the educated mind, the parochially minded man lives his life between blinkers; his whole life, and the way he looks at the world, is overshadowed by something intangible, which one cannot put one's finger upon, but yet which rules his life. It is a kind of spell, which the parochially minded man cannot shake off of his own volition; indeed…