Adjustment

Adjustment

Adjustment (from late Latin ad-juxtare, derived from juxta, near, but early confounded with a supposed derivation from Justus, right) means regulating, adapting or settling in a variety of contexts:

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    The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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