Confidence?
The original career plan for Charles Darwin was to be a doctor. His father, he recalled, felt that I should make a successful doctor, meaning by this, one who got many patients. He recalled, the senior Darwin, himself a successful doctor, maintained that the chief element of success was exciting confidence; but what he saw in me which convinced him that I should create confidence I do not know.
“Exciting/Create” confidence in this context means “get patients to trust him”?
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teacherJapan “Exciting/Create” confidence in this context means “get patients to trust him”? Yes. It's to make patients react by having confidence in him.
- teacherJapan “Exciting/Create” confidence in this context means “get patients to trust him”?
- Yes.
- It's to make patients react by having confidence in him.
- By the way, that use of 'should' is fairly old.
- Today we say 'would' or 'might' (create confidence) instead.
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teacherJapan“Exciting/Create” confidence in this context means “get patients to trust him”?
Yes. It's to make patients react by having confidence in him.
By the way, that use of 'should' is fairly old. Today we say 'would' or 'might' (create confidence) instead.
CJ
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