-This natural sagacity is taken advantage of in the use of the elephant in timber work, where he does not, as A generally supposed, merely go through a series of tricks that he has been taught, but brings his ingenuity to bear on the work he has to do, and thinks out the best way of doing it.
The exercise of discretion and judgment along with the development of sagacity is not arbitrary, a-moral, aprioristic or free from any normative considerations concerning how one should act.
And Henry Fowler, in his Dictionary of Modern Usage of that same year, noted: "Vision, in the sense of statesman-like foresight or political sagacity, is enjoying a noticeable vogue".
As far as we are concerned here, sagacity is not to be intended as a specific type of knowledge enabling a person to gain control over a specific practical domain.
"The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace".
In Hollywood, he was to sit at the feet of Clifford Odets, the leading wisdom merchant of the theatrical left (the sagacity was what marred Odets' plays).
The star, whose insight and sagacity are not confined to creating celluloid masterpieces, is also known to be the wily puppet master behind some of our highest government officials.
At times, there were suspicions that the mask was all there was to Mandela; that had his grasp of the situation been quite limited, it would have made no difference to his reputation for sagacity, such was the mystique surrounding him.
However, it seems to me that the problem that is actually at the root of the frustrations with publishing in the biomedical sciences is the scarcity of expertise, breadth and sagacity relative to the number of papers on which their authors have a right to expect they will be exercised.
But to meet the aspirations of eLife (or any other would-be general-interest selective biology journal) demands a breadth and depth of knowledge, with the sagacity to apply it appropriately, that are in limited supply, as is the time of professional scientists, especially knowledgeable and sagacious ones.
