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degeneracy
1. He wished there was a passage that was clear and literal enough for her, he could cite her a few about sloth and degeneracy, but she wouldn’t know them anyway and probably wouldn’t care if she did
2. late conditions, rules, and logics aimed at removing the degeneracy
3. Yet the reason philosophers create theories of meaning and knowledge is not for the sake of truth, for being not true was never a problem in the first place, but to remove the degeneracy in communication
4. Scientists thus invoke external limits of simplicity, mathematical elegance, severe tests, and other things in an attempt to further reduce degeneracy, but these attempts are ad hoc and send us back to metaphysics
5. These are but a few examples where degeneracy of
6. Degeneracy of contact as an adaptation is of course a
7. am not saying that we should stop trying to reduce the degeneracy of
8. denial, deference, and degeneracy
9. She sensed here a mystery darker than the degeneracy she had anticipated
10. But degeneracy had not yet sapped the kings and the people; though clad in silks and cloth-of-gold, they were still a vital, virile race
11. How many art galleries built their collections on the Nazis' spoils? How many art dealers built their fortunes on the misery - and extermination - of others? Do we still consider Nazi ideas of degeneracy to be valid when considering 'modern art'?
12. de Arce, in that hesings of the degeneracy of mankind
13. Just as in ancient Rome when the culture of the arena was the last culture before Rome rotted into total systemic incompetence, corruption, degeneracy and lunacy
14. Christ has been constituted a second Head of humanity; and Regeneration unto Life unites us to Him by vital ties of justification, Sanctification, and Redemption of body and soul to eternal life, as close as those which connected us with the first Adam, from whom we derived Condemnation, Degeneracy, and Death
15. You are a mere infant, but you'll go next, Jo, and we'll be left lamenting," said Laurie, shaking his head over the degeneracy of the times
16. But he feels strongly the unreality of their writings; he is protesting against the degeneracy of poetry in his own day as we might protest against the want of serious purpose in modern fiction, against the unseemliness or extravagance of some of our poets or novelists, against the time-serving of preachers or public writers, against the regardlessness of truth which to the eye of the philosopher seems to characterize the greater part of the world
17. warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check the flow of emotion
18. Some of that twice-blessed mercy was always with Lydgate in his work at the Hospital or in private houses, serving better than any opiate to quiet and sustain him under his anxieties and his sense of mental degeneracy
19. Might not the basket, stable-broom, mat-making, corn-parching, linen-spinning, and pottery business have thrived here, making the wilderness to blossom like the rose, and a numerous posterity have inherited the land of their fathers? The sterile soil would at least have been proof against a low-land degeneracy
20. His question was very simple: Why and by what right do some people confine, torture, exile, flog and kill other people no different than they are themselves? And in answer they argued the questions: Whether or not man is a free agent? Can a criminal be distinguished by the measurements of his cranium? To what extent is crime due to heredity? What is morality? What is insanity? What is degeneracy? What is temperament? How does climate, food, ignorance, emulation, hypnotism, passion affect crime? What is society? What are its duties? etc
21. You may call this phenomenon degeneracy
22. ’ Whenever his dyspepsia was especially severe he informed his parishioners that he had girded on his armor and was prepared to rebuke evil in high places, and that he would be recalcitrant to his trust if he did not lift up his voice to condemn civic rottenness and social degeneracy
23. Who they were, and what were the causes of their degeneracy, or of their extermination, no circumstances have yet explained
24. The proof which so complete and disgraceful a submission to its authority would afford of our degeneracy, could not fail to inspire confidence, that there was no limit to which its usurpations, and our degradation, might not be carried
25. From them the pretended Washingtonians of the present day will discover their degeneracy