But for us the interest is the development of a new class of readers, who won't bother about canons of taste or care for skill in working upon the old conventional methods, but can be profoundly interested in a straightforward narrative adapted to the simplest understandings.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
A people must be worked up to a certain point in their dispositions and understandings before they can be affected by highly civilized legislation....
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
This knowledge had at last become a part of the understandings of Alan Howard and John Carr.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory