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intellectualism

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in·tel·lec·tu·al·ism  (ntl-kch--lzm)
n.
1. Exercise or application of the intellect.
2. Devotion to exercise or development of the intellect.

intel·lectu·al·ist n.
intel·lectu·al·istic adj.

intellectualism
1. the exercise of the intellect.
2. a devotion to intellectual activities.
3. an excessive emphasis on intellect and a resulting neglect of emotion. — intellectualistic, adj.
See also: Knowledge

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I don't think much of you yet--I wish I could--though you do go talking and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides, and try to make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of the working classes.
 
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