| 单词 | degeneracy |
| 例句 | Despite wrapping up their objections to aspects of musical modernism in pseudo-scientific claptrap about ‘degeneracy’, the Nazi leaders’ distrust of certain forms of music was nothing more than crude, beer-cellar racism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Poetry was a symptom of weakness, of degeneracy and decay. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Hovering over modern discussions of usage is the spectre of George Orwell, whose essay “Politics and the English Language” challenged the degeneracy of bureaucratese. The Hedonic Appeal of “Dreyer’s English” 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The dissolution of one’s very self is an experience perhaps impossible to portray, unfortunately, but that’s the only novel that would shake the degeneracy and callousness that marks our engagement with “Lolita.” Can Data Make Life Better? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Do you have a moral position on degeneracy of that order? J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously' 2012-08-03T17:15:59Z I like degeneracy, but for The Box you really need to be in the right frame of mind. New York's most risque cabaret to open in London 2011-01-28T19:52:04Z Here the author again parallels Kraepelin, who stressed the contribution of heritable “degeneracy” to mental disorders. A Nobel Laureate Asks What Makes a ‘Disordered Mind’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The first mood defends liberal democracy as a precious inheritance that requires tending; the second excoriates it for its spiritual shallowness, cultural degeneracy and tendency toward an individualist myopia or socialist utopia. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z For better or worse, sexual misconduct or moral degeneracy, actual or fabricated, may no longer be effective. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z As America’s economy and demographics have turned further against their ideals, they’ve grown convinced that they’ve “lost their war against chaos and degeneracy.” Review | Elizabeth Wetmore’s ‘Valentine’ is a thrilling debut that deserves your attention 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z In many of these cases, an artist’s very participation in hip-hop is painted as a moral shortcoming that suggests a propensity for real-world violence and degeneracy. The Controversial Use of Rap Lyrics as Evidence 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The bearded diva’s achievement was hailed by many as a gain for diversity and tolerance but condemned by nationalist politicians in Russia as evidence of Western degeneracy. AP PHOTOS: Eurovision delivers decades of songs, spectacle 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous Cop Fiction.” Quentin Tarantino: film maverick and police critic delights in controversy 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z From dress rehearsal to closing night, we are privy to the lurid backstage and painful onstage antics of extravagant eccentrics who rival one another in sheer hubris, drunkenness and comical degeneracy. The 99-Seat Beat: 'ICE," 'Noises Off,' 'Bad Jews' and more 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z As the story unfolds, Joan’s depravity has a numbing effect, and the unremitting degeneracy of the male characters begins to seem didactic. Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The two shows would underscore something the Nazis thought would be obvious: The power of proper German art versus the decay and degeneracy of modern art. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit Smoke isn’t just a sign of degeneracy, but of vitality and free thought: “It’s the animal part of us that will not serve.” Review: Dan Vyleta’s ‘Smoke’ Is a Supernatural Take on a Victorian Novel 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Normally a quantum mechanical property called degeneracy pressure makes the electrons resist compression, adding support to the core. See JWST’s Spectacular New View of the Crab Nebula 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z The speaker’s contest has been another giant step into political degeneracy. Who chose the new speaker: Republicans or Trump? | Francis Wilkinson 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z An introductory message on WSAC's Telegram channel, through which new members were recruited, vowed to "fight degeneracy through honour, tradition, and brotherhood". Inside the neo-Nazi fitness club run by a Yorkshire prison officer 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Last November, he said Russia was fighting against “crazy Nazi drug addicts” in Ukraine, and against their Western allies, who have “saliva running down their chins from degeneracy,” Reuters reported. From liberal ‘dove’ to Kremlin’s bomb-thrower: Dmitry Medvedev’s curious evolution 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “The American people will not tolerate government-funded degeneracy at home, and we certainly will not accept its force-feeding abroad under Old Glory,” he said. Lawmakers accuse USAID of pushing leftwing agenda abroad, offer bill to defund the agency 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z But his influence, historians say, was considerable — including among eugenicists in the early 20th century who sought to identify and eliminate strains of what they saw as degeneracy in populations. Criminologists, looking to biology for insight, stir a racist past 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The repugnant pamphlets ranted about Jews’ “unspeakably bestial degeneracy,” about what would now be called “grooming” of Gentile girls, and that Jews “promoted a widespread contempt for the virtues of honor and honesty in business.” Jewish communities thrived in early L.A. — and helped the city thrive 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The stories she’s heard — of cruelty and degeneracy, bravery and ingenuity — stagger the imagination. Column: 'You're stepping on the graves of my grandparents': Politicians open old wounds with Nazi talk 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z This is called a degeneracy, and the energy levels for the same principal quantum number, n, are called degenerate orbitals. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z As a result, in white dwarfs, the nuclei do not exhibit degeneracy pressure. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z His degeneracy is aspirational to these voters, who like to imagine that they, too, are along for the ride of floating above law and custom. Laura Ingraham is delusional to think GOP voters will grow tired of Trump. They love his crimes 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Torba's a Vladimir Putin super fan, endorsing Russia's invasion of Ukraine for being "liberated and cleansed from the degeneracy of the secular western globalist empire." Pennsylvania GOP candidate Doug Mastriano gives up Gab — but not Nazis 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z I am quoted in this article, and I will reiterate: Any school in my district participating in ‘drag queen’ degeneracy risks losing their funding. New York mayor backs city-funded Drag Queen Story Hour for school children 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z However, in atoms with more than one electron, this degeneracy is eliminated by the electron–electron interactions, and orbitals that belong to different subshells have different energies, as shown on Figure 6.22. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z Hence, in the white dwarf stage of stellar evolution, it is the degeneracy pressure of the electrons, and not of the nuclei, that halts the collapse of the core. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z "We can't just sit by and watch our civilization and church collapse into a cesspool of degeneracy." White nationalists get religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z In a testament to the GOP's degeneracy, both resolutions failed. 2021's biggest troll: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z "These policies did not reflect the inevitable failure of the state or the congenital degeneracy of poor communities of color," she writes. The deeper history of "defund": How the "get tough" policies of the '70s and '80s led to disaster 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z It’d be great if today’s game descended into this sort of wanton free-for-all degeneracy Nobody wants to see this sort of thing again, the children are our future after all. Leeds United v Chelsea: Premier League – live! 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z So if the mass of the core were greater than this, then even neutron degeneracy would not be able to stop the core from collapsing further. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Having long preached “character” and “family values,” Republicans have given a pass to Mr. Trump’s personal degeneracy. Opinion | R.I.P., G.O.P. 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s about a face-of-the-league franchise in the nation’s capital engaging in such prolonged and encompassing misogyny and degeneracy that there will be years of litigation ahead. Perspective | Daniel Snyder has now embarrassed — and exposed — the entire NFL 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The following year the president of the Human Betterment Foundation wrote that the “trend toward race degeneracy is evident in statistics so well known that they need not here be rehearsed.” Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z These arguments were also adapted to claim superiority over indigenous people of North America: writers such as Montesquieu claimed that the more extreme weather of the American colonies created degeneracy. The Ugly History of Climate Determinism Is Still Evident Today 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z As the core is stabilized by degeneracy pressure, a last shudder of fusion passes through the outside of the star, consuming the little hydrogen still remaining. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The quest for supremacy always ended in degeneracy. Trump uses force as a first resort. And now the firepower is aimed at his own people 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z For instance, the experiment subtly managed to enforce energy degeneracy, which is difficult to attain when the system is not intrinsically symmetric7, as was the case here. Light turned into exotic Laughlin matter 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z But this is no paradox at all – in fact, it reflects a deeper degeneracy of the concept of freedom in contemporary American politics and culture. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Whether that's an anti-American half time show or commercials that promote degeneracy. Super Bowl show's Latino flavor and political edge hits home with audience 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z This champion of individualism said that Hickman's "degeneracy" showed "how society can wreck an exceptional being." Right-wingers finally got their Ayn Rand hero as president — and it's this guy 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Thatcher-era degeneracy is lavishly displayed as Nick falls in love with the son of a supermarket magnate, and the novel records how Aids began to poison gay life in London. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Her clothing, even her gestures and sighs were scrutinised as indications either of her guilt or, at least, her moral degeneracy. From Clytemnestra to Villanelle: why are we fascinated by women who kill? 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Living systems use a special type of redundancy called degeneracy. Can a Pill Really Help You Live Longer? 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z By the 1940s, thousands of men would be arrested each year for “degeneracy”. When Brooklyn was queer: telling the story of the borough's LGBTQ past 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Avándaro, a Woodstock-style concert held at a racetrack on the outskirts of Mexico City in September of 1971 was described as “sexual degeneracy, filth, hair and blood” in one media dispatch. A grand old theater, a middle class house: How Mexico City's landscape helped Alfonso Cuarón tell the story of 'Roma' 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z But the far-right’s so-called “supremacy” is actually an excuse to embrace moral degeneracy. Wednesday US briefing: Republican wins Mississippi's US Senate runoff 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The issue is that I’m not sure that it’s “supremacy” that is the goal here, so much as a licence for a perverse kind of degeneracy. ‘White supremacy’ is really about ‘white degeneracy’ | Keith Kahn-Harris 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z But he warned that an ever-lurking danger of aimless degeneracy accompanied this possibility. Perspective | Vacation seems like it frees us from work. That's what work wants us to think. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Every American generation has a vocal minority that considers itself doomed to live in an age of constitutional degeneracy. The Culture That Sustains America’s Constitution 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Press coverage of the drugs often focused on bad trips and the supposed moral degeneracy they induced rather than developments in the scientific field. Can psychedelics transform mental health? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “The story touches on multiple long-standing anti-Semitic tropes, including Jewish control of Hollywood and the media, and Jewish sexual degeneracy and perversion,” the report said. Report: Millions of tweets spread anti-Semitic messages 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z For a significant proportion of his supporters, it was a deliberate choice for moral degeneracy, even a celebration of it. ‘White supremacy’ is really about ‘white degeneracy’ | Keith Kahn-Harris 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “She definitely helps push the degeneracy. Didn’t she have that cross-dressing little boy on?” ‘I don’t know how you got this way’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z One of the main sources of uncertainty in our measurement of H0 is due to the degeneracy between distance and inclination in the gravitational-wave measurements. A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z He did, however, receive a round of head nods for declaring, “We’re living in the most apostate civilization in the history of the world,” a statement that echoed the so-called alt-right’s castigation of liberal “degeneracy.” Trump’s Embrace of Racially Charged Past Puts Republicans in Crisis 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z But Charles, who has been waiting to become king longer than any previous Prince of Wales, does not boast a distinguished record of degeneracy. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The degeneracy of Trump tells us something about changing trends within white racism. ‘White supremacy’ is really about ‘white degeneracy’ | Keith Kahn-Harris 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The paper declared its opposition to “this modern degeneracy, this miscellaneous and business fashion.” Valentine's Day, so lucrative for businesses, has a naughty history 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z It ranges from the incredibly disciplined to the piggish, total engorgement and degeneracy. How does actor Mark Feuerstein stay so fit? Multitasking 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Mad money is being made off of selling degeneracy to young folk, black and white. Tavis Smiley: The Other Tragedy of the Chicago Torture Video 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Dirt, disease, degeneracy, the poor rat is much despised. Rodents Run Wild in Paris. Blame the European Union. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z At the heart of this proud degeneracy is an insecurity. ‘White supremacy’ is really about ‘white degeneracy’ | Keith Kahn-Harris 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z What is clear is that he didn’t present any credentials for occupying the world’s most important political position, aside from his distinguished handling of demagogic degeneracy. ‘A Moment of Great Peril’: Foreign Observers on Trump’s Success 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid,” Lincoln wrote to his friend Joshua Speed in 1855. This Is What Abraham Lincoln Would Tell Donald Trump 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z That is the least of the film’s sins of abetting the viewer into being an accessory in degeneracy. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Neon Demon’ is a depraved exploitation film masquerading as art 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z A video posted on YouTube before Prince Mohammed announced the reforms was titled "Before the Catastrophe" and portrayed a society riven by the moral degeneracy of the West before succumbing to chaos and violence. Saudi reform plans flirt with social change 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z And perhaps the very degeneracy of Trump and the rest will begin to pall after a while. ‘White supremacy’ is really about ‘white degeneracy’ | Keith Kahn-Harris 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Press coverage of the drug focused on bad trips, students throwing themselves out of windows and supposed moral degeneracy rather than any potential scientific advances. Will LSD ever be accepted as mainstream treatment? - BBC News 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The corruption and degeneracy which you rightly condemn are admittedly part of the Church's history. A Point of View: Has the Catholic Church really changed? - BBC News 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Does Lynch mean to imply that all who watch Tarantino films are also cop-hating purveyors of degeneracy? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bully Boycotts Are Doomed to Fail 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous Cop Fiction. Quentin Tarantino: Philadelphia police join LAPD, NYPD in calling for boycott 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z “The so-called pocket-size books, which originally started out as cheap reprints of standard works, have largely degenerated into media for the dissemination of artful appeals to sensuality, immorality, filth, perversion, and degeneracy,” it concluded. The Birth of Pulp Fiction | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z He excoriates Émile Zola and writes that the Impressionists can only be understood in terms of “hysteria and degeneracy.” The French Obsession With National Suicide 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In short, the root problem is not the degeneracy of a group of Americans. Where heroin hit the suburbs It is the degeneracy of British economy and society in a football microcosm – nothing to stop Cayman Island ownership, strange "sponsorships" and lush, anonymous director fees. The beautiful game embodies everything that's bad about Britain 2013-01-13T00:06:11Z To his fans, assistant police commissioner Vasant Dhoble is a modern-day hero who is doing his damnedest to save Mumbai from degeneracy. Mumbai partygoers fear police chief on moral crusade 2012-07-19T17:09:57Z All bear the same message of rapidly multiplying degeneracy. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The line between degeneracy and the ‘twopence colored’ type of religion is not very clearly drawn.” The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z What I have given will probably suffice to illustrate the degeneracy of the Christianity superimposed upon paganism and wielded by a sacerdotal body so worldly in its aspirations as that of the Middle Ages. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z It thence follows that the crossings with the primitive race, or even with a race on the road to degeneracy on an imperfect soil, constantly check the effect of the superior soil. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Abstractly considered it was, and if we had been a weak nation, sinking into degeneracy, it would have proved so. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z That is, the degeneracy is due to the defective stock, not to alcohol. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z They increase our wonder, I say, because the ascendency of priests in a nation is more an effect than a cause of degeneracy. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z What, then, can be the consequences of this rash and violent measure and degeneracy of representation, confusion of councils, blunders without number? The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z These defects show an unsuspected but serious and rapid degeneracy of the Anglo-American race, and the decline has already perhaps gone further than one would readily believe. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Few books exhibit a more curious picture of the combination of intense child-like literary and moral enthusiasm with the most hopeless intellectual degeneracy. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Under such conditions there is a pronounced tendency to intermarry, and if deterioration is already present in the stock such communities become centers of marked degeneracy. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z A close survey of the condition of the tribes at this period will detect some signs of improvement, but many more of degeneracy and decay. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z As soon as the slightest degeneracy is observed, the breed should be crossed from time to time, keeping sight, however, while so doing, of the end in view. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The general degeneracy of the times was acknowledged even by those who shared in it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z He knew the cause of nervous degeneracy,—no man better. Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours 2012-03-14T02:00:27.650Z Studies carried on by Pearson, Elderton and Barrington of the Eugenic Laboratory in London lead these investigators to the conclusion that extreme alcoholism is a result not a cause of degeneracy. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Only yesterday that ugly word "degeneracy," thanks to quack critics and charlatan "psychiatrists," figured as a means of estimating genius. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z But the degeneracy of the revived Show was very apparent. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Hypnotic or autohypnotic stigmata, and by stigmata here is meant bleeding from the hands, feet, and side, would be degeneracy of the mind and body in the natural order. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z But not even the prophetic eye of genius could discern the degeneracy that was to increase so rapidly, from the day in which he wrote, to this. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Degenerate Strains.—A number of family records are now available which show convincing evidence of the hereditary nature of a degeneracy which finds expression in pauperism, immorality and crime. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The 1920 court began hunting for homosexuals after anonymous reports of “revolting acts of degeneracy” at some campus parties, according to an article that was published in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper in 2002. Harvard Group Wants Degrees for Gay Students Expelled in 1920 2012-02-28T21:20:01Z Reform agitation tends to check degeneracy, but Reform Acts fatal to the Show. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Autohypnosis is always a mark of degeneracy in the natural order, and to call the ecstacy of a saint autohypnosis not only takes all worth from the manifestation, but the assertion is also untrue. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z It alike exhibits to full view their degeneracy and their worth.” The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z One of the most remarkable of these is the recent study on degeneracy by Goddard as set forth in his book called The Kallikak Family. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The King was a mere boy of ten summers; later writers could tell us that signs of degeneracy were discovered in the prince as early as the day of his baptism. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z It is only when the period of degeneracy commences that we begin to have anything like adequate materials for their detailed history. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z In France, particularly in the case of a number of insane children and idiots, histories of this nature have been obtained in confirmation of this unfortunate factor as an element in degeneracy. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The one drop of satisfaction which is given to us in the goblet of gall is that an assembly will vanish into space which has reached the lowest depth of human degeneracy. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z As Doctor Wilmarth says, “Mental accident may occur in any family, but it is rarely a second case occurs unless there is a tendency to nerve degeneracy.” Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z You seem to believe in the degeneracy of man, and that our unfortunate race, starting at perfection, has traveled downward through all the wasted years. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z In spite of reforms by improved compositions and legislative measures the degeneracy of the Gilds proceeded apace. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Unfortunately for the coincident evolution argument involved in human beings, the peculiarities introduced, which become the subject of inheritance, do not make for the development, but rather for the degeneracy, of the race. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The chief cause of the degeneracy of the Fehm-courts was the admission of improper persons into the society. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z Breeding in-and-in causes degeneracy in fowls as in all other animals. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z She used this word with angry scorn, as symbol of all degeneracy; and also despised pinochle, refusing to learn it, though any one could induce her to play bezique. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z The degeneracy of the latter had been largely intensified by the degeneracy of the former. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Same as Calif. Kaliyuga, kal-i-yōō′ga, n. in Hindu mythology, the present age of the world, the fourth, characterised by universal degeneracy. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z All security will disappear, and British commerce and industry, when no man knows what the morrow will bring forth, must rapidly decline, thus accentuating British national degeneracy and decadence.—H.W. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z He impressed upon Musa the natural advantages of his native land, and laid stress upon its distracted and defenceless condition, the effeminacy and degeneracy of its warriors, and the unprotected state of its cities. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z It is simply an instance of the degeneracy that, he claimed, inevitably follows the adoption of selfish or materialistic ambitions. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z It is by reason of the widely-reaching influence of their degeneracy that their later history is of importance. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z Nephews and cousins bearing the same name had succumbed to intermarriage and degeneracy, yet the main stem had grown straight. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z But even if we admit that warfare � l'espagnole may be degrading, and that just wars are ennobling and necessary to our moral welfare, we should nevertheless be condemned to degeneracy and decline. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Dr. Fenton also adduces the intermarriage of near relations among the New Zealanders as one prominent cause of their disease and physical degeneracy. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z There is something profoundly melancholy in Fox's degeneracy. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z This is by no means owing to the degeneracy of the natives; for the Geese of late years do not frequent those parts in such numbers as formerly. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z The subsequent history has been ever one of degeneracy, until a higher power came to the aid of exhausted nature, and made another step of real progress in the supernatural organization of a superior type. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Each succeeding year and age was marked by the onward degeneracy and baseness of the Roman spirit. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The reactionaries of the different countries vainly declare that democratic triumph is a sign of degeneracy. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z Variety of Grecian life and intellect.—State of education and of the fine arts among the Greeks.—The origin of their philosophy and natural science.—Their political degeneracy. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Mary Anne Clarke, our second type of ascendant degeneracy, was, if Buck's drawing of her is truthful, a woman of seductive prettiness, but she could not teach Cruikshank her charm in atonement for her venality. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Second: It will further demonstrate that the physical and mental deterioration, poverty, disease, crime, human degeneracy, and racial decay now being caused by the tenement life can be prevented by the Homecroft Life. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Grosseteste realized that the misrule of Henry III. and his unprincipled compact with the papacy largely accounted for the degeneracy of the English hierarchy and the laxity of ecclesiastical discipline. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z When the owner died, the property was put in control of an agent, with the usual result—rapid degeneracy. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Amalgamation with the native races was easy, and it involved neither physical nor intellectual degeneracy as its consequence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z As far back in time as human records go, we ever find old men bewailing prevalent degeneracy, and sighing in vain for "the good old times" when they were young. Stories of the Badger State 2011-11-27T03:00:12.687Z Many see the danger of a social or political cataclysm resulting from the saturnalia of degeneracy, disease, and crime that is being bred by tenement life and congested cities. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Comparatively perfect as it was, the government of the United States presented certain germs of weakness, corruption and degeneracy. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z The physical and moral degeneracy continued until 1880, when a few private individuals made the experiment of redemption. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z There are a number of practical and worthy men engaged in improving the different kinds of live stock, and preventing the degeneracy to which we refer. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z For him civilisation necessarily involves corruption and degeneracy. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z They cannot evade the fact that the menace against which we most need national defense arises from the degeneracy that we are breeding in our midst. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Recruiting statistics have valuably emphasised the truth that in those localities where women are most employed in labour, there disease and degeneracy are most rampant. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The brother was a worthless fellow, who bore every evidence of degeneracy and rarely worked. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z But the great mass want more light on this subject, and for this reason we endeavor to show the causes of degeneracy, to enable them to avoid the errors of their forefathers. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z The five miles between Twyford and Reading exhibit the gradual degeneracy of a country road approaching a large town; as regards the scenery, that is to say. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z The infamous actions of the person, or persons, in the girls’ gymnasium last night show degeneracy and a monkeyish wickedness that can be condoned in no particular. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z This estimate of abnormality, by reason of a million of the nation's young manhood disqualified by definite disease, defect or degeneracy, is far below the mark. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Ignorance contributed to the rapid degeneracy of the people in the old home sections of New York. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Such a barbarous system would entail universal misery and degeneracy on all classes of live stock; and we might then exclaim, "They are living, yet half dead—victims to an inconsistent system of medication!" The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Two other notable murders by highwaymen took place here—in 1798 and 1802—and bear witness to the degeneracy of the craft. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z He characterized their present persecution as a just punishment from Jehovah for their degeneracy, and their being so absorbed in the pursuit of money. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z And the deplorable truth of this degeneracy is overlooked, because no more than a fractional number of our doctors distinguish between The Normal and The Average. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The political units where this system of government in the interest of the "boss" have their strongest hold are the best evidences of the moral degeneracy that follows. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Our opinion is, that the transplanting was one of the causes of this degeneracy. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Schooled as he had been to sights of debauchery by his service with Cuter Malone, Brent was appalled—sickened by the sottish degeneracy of his surroundings. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Its course runs from ease, through softness, to flabbiness, to degeneracy, mental, physical and moral. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z Every form of disease and degeneracy, physical and mental, is rampant. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Specific houses seem to have in them the very germs of immorality and degeneracy. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z The wonderful and rapid rise of the Romans in power, domain and wealth led to a moral and political degeneracy which demanded the increased use of slaves in all branches of domestic and public life. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z Female songsters of questionable virtue are now more in favor than their male rivals, which is an unerring proof of the degeneracy of the age. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z After six years' association with the robust women of England and the Continent, the physical degeneracy of American women appeared more marked to me than ever before. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z We point to these and say: One cannot speak with truth of the degeneracy of nations which produce such noble specimens! Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Surely not to be ascribed to a turbulent disposition or a moral degeneracy of the working classes. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z “That abject pursuit of debauchery and degeneracy, I’m not constitutionally capable of it.” Moby Swaps Drink, Parties for Insomnia, Studio Tan: Interview 2011-09-27T23:23:05Z Let not the rude hand of degeneracy desecrate the hallowed shrine of their memory. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z It is a sign of degeneracy in us to banter and to scoff, and cynically to vulgarize the ridicule and the contempt heaped upon us by others. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z Such children, in their mental hebetude and physical degeneracy, suggest a degree of cretinism. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z As time passed, the degeneracy due to climate and custom was intensified by degeneracy of blood. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z These pious cut-throats here," said Talbot, "who talk of our degeneracy, slander us to the whole world: and, faith, I am not of the mind to bear it! Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z ‘Corruption’, ‘degeneracy’, does not explain the form of the ballads, any more than the Miracle Plays are explained by calling them corruptions of the Gospel. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z The most incontrovertible token of the degeneracy of a race is when its women are very fair and its men very hideous. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z The constitutional degeneracy of some shows in precocious sex-development—all precocity being degeneracy, development too rapid and exhaustive, and entailing therefore flimsy and unstable tissue-cells, faulty functioning and premature decline. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z There can be no doubt that the Creole whites, as a class, showed increasing signs of degeneracy. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The baseness which some natures reveal is a form of degeneracy,—a sign of mental abnormality. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z They found the country in the same condition of effeminate luxury and degeneracy that had proved the ruin of other parts of the empire. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z I repeat it, the term degeneracy is correct; but it is necessary to define it, to give it a real and tangible meaning. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z During the dinner he got on his favorite theory of the degeneracy of animals, and even of men, in America, and urged it with his usual eloquence. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z We hear much of the progress of humanity founded on the increase of comfort, but that way lies degeneracy and failure to take life seriously. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z For the more evident tendency of art has for some time been to an infinite degeneracy. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Eldest of creatures, the progenitor of all below him, personally one and imperishable in essence, if debased forms appear in nature, these are consequent on man's degeneracy prior to their genesis. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z It then remains to show how the ethnical character of a nation can undergo such a total change as I designate by the term degeneracy. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Nature asserted her rights, not in a peaceful, normal manner, but with horrible degeneracy,--stupefaction in the place of sleep, the delirium of fury instead of dreams. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z At Rome the women had no virtue and the men no courage; they were interested in their bodies and degeneracy had come. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z Beneath the most loathsome and foul degeneracy conceivable; even beneath the filthy sewer. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z Do you really think that too much can be done in this age of indifference and degeneracy? A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z If this definition of degeneracy be accepted, and its consequences admitted, the problem of the rise and fall of empires no longer presents any difficulty. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z I never hav met an old man yet, who didn’t mourn the degeneracy ov the times. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z Neither the history of the Mendicant Orders, nor the causes which contributed to their degeneracy, concern us here. Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z The colouring matter in its body becomes broken up into irregular patches owing to degeneracy of the endoderm cells, and it dies within a few hours. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z But the very connection with the stars soon led the way to a degeneracy. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z It is necessary, then, to show what degeneracy is. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Such is the degeneracy of vines in these modern days! A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z But this is considered a degeneracy, and voted mauvais ton by those who understand the thing. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z In the unsunned sides of narrow streets," she writes, "there is degeneracy and weakliness of the human race—mind and body equally degenerating. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Other varieties in the races themselves have created the abnormal states which Morel has denominated degeneracies. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z In times of intellectual degeneracy it is otherwise. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Does this admiring of art for art’s sake suggest the degeneracy of his soul? Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Beyond rose the dark walls erected around the city—a sign of the degeneracy of the inhabitants, whose breasts and stout arms in former days had been considered sufficient for its protection. Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z The fabliaux lashed not only the clergy and nobility in their degeneracy, but even mocked the religious chivalrous spirit, and the religious and knightly doctrines and ceremonies. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z A school arose which, defying the individualistic rule of English common law underlying the institutions of the United States, pandered to mob-law and theologic prejudice by denying certain well-ascertained facts in human degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The meaning of the word degeneracy is now obvious. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z One of the most historical sections of the community, the Muhammadans, had gradually sunk into the degeneracy incident to an ex-ruling class. The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India 2011-04-11T02:00:13.067Z His contemporaries still describe him as the model of a man of fashion, and amusingly lament over the degeneracy of an age which no longer produces such men. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z But that Satan should stoop to associate with an incubus, shows that there is degeneracy in hell.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z As the same process occurs in “hob-nail” liver, it is obvious that degeneracy may be an expression of general advance and local defect or may be a local expression of general defect. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Civilization, therefore, produces no degeneracy; the cultivation of the arts of peace, no diminution of manly virtues. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z As to varieties, I will only say that planting the tubers for seed is an unnatural process, which tends and must tend to degeneracy. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z He lays it down as a principle that a signature of that kind is a sign of moral degeneracy. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z After that, any belief in the invader's prowess laid whoever expressed it open to the charge, not only of aristocracy, but of degeneracy as well. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z With this object, it has avoided laying stress on any one cause of degeneracy, and ignoring factors which produce it and are aggravated by it. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It is further said, though with less plausibility, that there is a general degeneracy of the human race—that we are inferior in physical strength to our ancestors, etc. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z I hold that their multiplication and their devastations are largely incited by the degeneracy of our plants caused by the badness of our culture. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z He ascribes the purity of the Adamic church to this condition, and its degeneracy and destruction, to the loss of it. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z They will be a symbol not of elegance or sophistication, as they once were, but of degeneracy and self-destruction, and they will doubtless be all the more glamorous for that. Why stop at the tobacco industry? 2011-03-11T07:00:02Z Morel’s admission that causes influencing health produce deviations which, under favouring conditions, become racial types capable of indefinite transmission, saves him from absolute scientific inaccuracy, but renders inconsistent his limitation of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Few flowers bloomed, and they were reduced to expedients once considered signs of degeneracy in their race. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z Much has been said of the degeneracy and increasing sterility of the New England Puritan stock. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z The murderer robs society; the mentally defective parent curses society, both in the present and in the future, with the taint of degeneracy. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z The brutal Sforza vigour and the elegant Medicean astuteness could not save them from sharing in the general degeneracy that spread like a blight over all Italy. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z With the close of the year 1883 the degeneracy doctrine may be regarded as having practically been accepted in biology, in anthropology, in sociology, in criminology, in psychiatry, and general pathology. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It will turn the most beautiful character into an extreme case of moral degeneracy. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z American degeneracy allegedly was evident in its weak and stunted flora, fauna and people. Jefferson's Moose and the Case Against American Degeneracy (preview) 2011-02-14T14:15:02.127Z Unwisely used, it leads to individual dissipation and social degeneracy. The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z Real tragedy lay in something very different—perhaps in manhood awaking from ignoble lethargy to learn its own degeneracy in a young girl's scornful eyes. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Furthermore, during the embryonic period the development of the brain will, of necessity, be more immediately affected by degeneracy than the face, which will gain in evolution at its expense. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Here sat, for the major portion of the fourteenth century, the papal court of Avignon; which the uncharitable have called a synonym for profligacy, veniality, and luxurious degeneracy. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The morbid degeneracy of his brain is undeniable, and yet in certain respects it is nevertheless a brain excellently ordered for planning evil, and it has made a special study of the art of slaughter. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z On the other hand there was degeneracy that could not be denied. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z Biologist and author Lee Dugatkin talks about his article Jefferson's Moose in the February issue of , the story of Jefferson's battle against the European theory of American biological degeneracy. Jefferson's Moose: Thomas's Fauna Fight Against European Naturalists 2011-01-26T22:45:00.250Z The stigmata of degeneracy, therefore, most likely to attract attention are in the order given, those of the face, jaws, and teeth; ear, eye, cranium; body, bodily functions; brain and spinal cord. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Why may not the red-head’s occasional cannibalism, unless this is mere individual degeneracy, and his more common custom of hoarding be habits that he is acquiring? The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z Intermediate systems partake of both the competitive and coöperative plan, none of the intermediate systems, however, leading to supremacy, and some of them resulting in degeneracy. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z “Something in this line?” he said, and read: “‘Complaints of our degeneracy in literature as well as in morals I own have been frequently exhibited of late…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z But this huge, hairy, shaggy, almost naked giant, cowering against the side of a shack with all the timidity of a child, marked a climax even to such degeneracy as he had quailed before. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z While Morel practically outlined the modern study of degeneracy, his theologic timidity forced an absolute definition of a state which, according to his own admission, was purely relative. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z In the esoteric part of it there will be observed, instead of such degeneracy, a surprisingly elaborate system of the most subtle speculation, which parallels that of East Indian systems of metaphysics. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Now there were "Furnished Room" signs in the windows, or shops in the lower floors, or, worst degeneracy of all, signs of negro habitation. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Man, in this fallen state, is too apt to flatter himself, and to look for comfort, before a thorough search has been made into his own sinful condition, degeneracy, and apostasy from God. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z They tell him of their adventures; they recall old days; they deplore the present condition of the School and the degeneracy of the Eleven; they fight their own battles over again. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z Each of these degeneracies has its own stamp from the cause that produces it. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z But even without this experience, a post-Darwinian politician would point to the changelessness of the East as in itself a sign of degeneracy, and the restlessness of the West as a proof of its superiority. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Afterwards they went off in little groups by themselves, and looked on pityingly at their young folks’ degeneracy into fox-trotting. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Another set of paired prints, William Hogarth’s “Beer Street” and “Gin Lane,” from 1751, contrasts the salubrious effects of good old-fashioned British beer with the drunken degeneracy resulting from that more recent Dutch invention, gin. | Connecticut: Art That Can Depict a Starvation Diet 2010-11-20T19:24:00Z Many authors complain of the physical degeneracy of men at the present day, as compared with past generations. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers For several decades, moreover, the stigmata of degeneracy have appeared in French, German, Austrian, Russian, Italian, and Scandinavian court reports as evidence of hereditary defects. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The weaker blood had remained behind, not to mingle with 296 fresh blood, but to cross too often with its own strain, till something perilously close to degeneracy resulted. The Idyl of Twin Fires If any man feels too gloomy about the degeneracy of our people from the standards of their forefathers, let him read "Martin Chuzzlewit"; it will be consoling. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Is this not a disturbing sign of degeneracy? Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius We women have been much to blame for the degeneracy which has been felt of late. Household Organization Such changes must necessarily result in local degeneracies which are for the benefit of the organism as a whole. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Having outlived their time they have become corrupt and worse than useless and now present a spectacle of political degeneracy never before witnessed in this or any other country. Labor and Freedom No instances of degeneracy, no exceptions brought to pass by thwarted nature, can affect the truth of this. The Voice of the Pack Yet even faith has to face and account for an apparent degeneracy which might well cause some uneasiness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius At one end of the social scale national degeneracy makes the trader in alcohol a plutocrat; at the other end the same national degeneracy makes him a legislator and a pseudo-aristocrat. Stand Up, Ye Dead All these conditions, however, may be an expression of a degenerate type assuming a normal equilibrium, as well as of a normal organism taking the first steps in degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The Secretary stood alone; modern degeneracy had not reached him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Evidently the years had brought degeneracy to the Failing clan. The Voice of the Pack Every generation mourns over its degeneracy, but it is no worse than its ancestors, and its posterity will be no better. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Whatever race in the past surrendered to evil and made degeneracy its god—upon that race the judgment of the consuming sword fell. Stand Up, Ye Dead Weismann’s admission of the inheritance of a tuberculous habit must logically, from the standpoint of degeneracy, be regarded as destroying his claims. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Maitland gave a faint shrug of the shoulders, as though he deplored the degeneracy, but couldn't help it. Tony Butler As in southeastern Ohio, so in any area where the church fails, degeneracy begins. Six Thousand Country Churches Its interest to Tacitus lies in the discovery of hidden motives and the secret of character, in watching the stages of an inevitable degeneracy, the moral preparation for a dark, inglorious end. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It was great because its faith had not been radically impaired; it was sane because Germany had not yet inoculated the human race with its porcine political vulgarities, its bestial degeneracy in art.... The Moonlit Way In the Lambert family a skin deformity, the last result of degeneracy in previous generations, was transmitted. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z "Nothing is so common as the affectation of, nor any thing so seldom found as Taste" was the complaint of the Weekly Register in 1731, deploring "the degeneracy of Taste since Mr. Addison's time." The Man of Taste A church with such a pastor is community insurance against degeneracy and decay. Six Thousand Country Churches The natural and legitimate influence of such massing of population is all in the direction of immorality and degeneracy. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them If it can be shown that apes descended from man, it does not leave upon man the censure for this degeneracy. The Speech of Monkeys The law laid down as to absolute extinction through degeneracy by Morel and others can only be regarded as absolutely true when applied to a given type rather than the race as a whole. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z "And I told papa; but he only frowned and made some observation about the degeneracy of the times, and the number of scamps thrown to the top by the modern methods of acquiring instantaneous fortunes." The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life The chief causes tending to produce degeneracy in modern life are discussed—heredity, climate, foods, alcohol, education, etc.—and the methods of combating them considered. The History of the European Fauna Here he looked up as though the profligacy and degeneracy of the age were transgressing all bounds. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Farther, the languages of the various populations differ in proceeding from these centres in a manner pointing to degeneracy such as is likely to occur in small and rude tribes separating from a parent stock. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Heredity governs all the phenomena of degeneracy with the same results and the same energy as it controls moral and physical resemblances in the offspring. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be drudged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 "Who would write, if he had anything better to do?" he scornfully enquires, "I think the mighty stir made about scribbling and scribes, by themselves and others, a sign of effeminacy, degeneracy, and weakness." A Day with Lord Byron This country’s getting too corrupt to do business in,” and Mr. Fox relapsed into sorrowful silence over the degeneracy of the times. Young Wallingford Christianity so gained in force that at the time of supreme need it saved humanity from sinking back into the degeneracy of the Roman bacchanal. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) With rise in evolution this struggle decreases, to increase with the opposite procedure of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z A writer in the Builder remarking the degeneracy of regular cocknies attributes it to the want of good air, the expensive nature of a good education, the sedentary employment of many of them. About London But Valeria sensed here something that moved behind the scenes, some secret terror fouler than common degeneracy. Red Nails In the depleted town with shattered institutions and broken hopes, in the perplexity of changing times, in the perils of degeneracy, the church is the vital center which is to be saved at any cost. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Elevation and degeneracy appear as clearly in poetry as in life. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The influence of race intermixture in the production of degeneracy is easily settled. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z I do not believe in the degeneracy of our race. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses She sensed here a mystery darker than the degeneracy she had anticipated. Red Nails The great majority of folks in both city and country are living a decent life; degeneracy is everywhere the exception. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity In accordance with certain prophetic hints, they expected first the “birth-throes”1207 or “vestiges” of the Messianic age, a great physical and moral crisis with the turmoil of nature, plagues, and moral degeneracy. Jewish Theology The influence of contagions and infections on degeneracy is therefore by no means slight. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The race of men who now inhabit this island of ours show no signs of degeneracy. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Style comprehends the whole of a picture, in all its mysterious or simple workings—its moral character—its elevation, or its degeneracy. The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. Country people in prosperous rural sections of Kansas, for instance, where no poor-house or jail can be found for many miles, insist that degeneracy is a city symptom! The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity He said, "Everything points to a race of super-intelligence held down by sheer degeneracy." The Test Colony As Kiernan has shown, atavism at times tends to preserve the type, and offsets the influence of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z But what will 'science' say to St. Paul's account of human degeneracy and degradation? St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition These distinctions constitute the obstacles which explain the possibility of relative retrogression, up to the point of degeneracy and of the dissolution of an entire society. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History A Note of Warning These sad stories of rural degeneracy must not make us pessimists. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity This notion of English degeneracy in "America" has, however, been rapidly dying out in Europe, and even in England during the last ten or fifteen years. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. While coca took its place only recently among the toxic causes of degeneracy, it was old as a factor in the degeneration of the Peruvian long ere the discovery of America by Columbus. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Such was the degeneracy of the Portuguese, a degeneracy lamented in vain by Camo�ns, whose observation of it was imputed to him as a crime. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem The most was due to the degeneracy of the people, except the royal House, which lost three men in the struggle. The Scarlet Banner Then isolation increases, with a strong tendency toward degeneracy and demoralization. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity He thundered against the degeneracy of the wealthy classes and enlarged on the peculiar vices of the aristocrats, to the confusion of the empress and her court ladies and to the delight of the populace. Women of Early Christianity Such chronicity is evidence of advance, yet it constitutes an element of degeneracy, since the victim of the chronic disease is able to leave more offspring than would be possible were the disorder acute. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The degeneracy of literary taste is, therefore, the surest proof of the general ignorance. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem It must be admitted also that female degeneracy kept pace with the increase of woman's influence in the political world. Roman Women What is to prevent thousands of other rural townships, which are now losing population, gradually sinking to the low level of personal shiftlessness and institutional uselessness which are the marks of degeneracy? The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity The degeneracy of these poor devils was a perpetual affront to the race that had put them there. Pet Farm These, then, are stigmata of degeneracy, especially due, in the individual presenting them, to the contagions and infections rather than to inheritance alone. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The Southern nations of Europe were sunk into the most contemptible degeneracy. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Her husband's name was Calenus; and with him she lived for fifteen years, in a felicity of reciprocated conjugal affection which, notwithstanding the degeneracy of the age, seems to have been ideal. Roman Women In all the central states, conditions of rural degeneracy now exist which a few years ago were supposed to be confined to New England; for the same causes have been repeating themselves in other surroundings. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity "It's all very fine to lay the whole blame of this, that, and t' other to the peculiar degeneracy of our own time; but my notion is, the world grows neither worse nor better." Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day A crucial test of the opposing positions taken respectively in such a positive manner by Bemiss and Strahan would be a family intermarrying extensively, but placed under favouring conditions unlikely of themselves to create degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z In the same manner Cupid, in the fable of Psyche, is interpreted by mythologists, to signify the Divine Love weeping over the degeneracy of human nature. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem She seems to be ashamed of, and disgusted with, its degeneracy and while the others grow fat and sleek from positive repletion, it becomes thin and dirty from actual starvation. The Dog Apparently most of this degeneracy can be traced back to a single family whose descendants have numbered 800. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity And yet, with all his degeneracy, the French trapper retains a something of his old traditions. The Story of the Trapper Hence intermixture with an inferior race, having an inferior type of pelvis, would tend to degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The press, so essential to free institutions, partakes of the degeneracy, and thus politics is degraded from a noble science to a disgusting scramble for spoils. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. She had half suspected what pernicious admiration must be at the root of the degeneracy she perceived among the village girls, when one day—this was soon after her return—she saw Judith Bray. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 And alas! for the degeneracy of those days. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries They cannot make a nation sound in mind and body, they merely screen degeneracy behind a throng of arrested degenerates. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics The alcoholism in these cases was clearly an expression of the factors of race deterioration producing degeneracy, and not its cause. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It was only when you set yourself to offer resistance to sinful impulse, to contend with the Eternal Power, that you were abandoned in your blindness and degeneracy. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II No prating now of the degeneracy of the potato. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Such women act as extinguishers upon the feeble, flickering flame of chivalry, which modern degeneracy in manners and morals has almost smothered.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part But we have become so used to crime, disease and degeneracy that we take them as necessary evils. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics This occult conception of degeneracy is even yet a part of American folklore. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The degeneracy of Buddhism is due to Cathay. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Let them instead turn their attention for proof of degeneracy to the strange helplessness of middle-class mothers in training their children, and their dread of nursery complications. Modern marriage and how to bear it Even a century ago, however, degeneracy had set in. Old and New London Volume I In like manner, at a modern party, a circle of matrons sit in edifying conclave, and lament the degeneracy of the age. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings This degeneracy, while popularly charged to occult influences, was early ascribed by scientists to physical causes. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It is absurd to suppose that the tendency towards the habit means degeneracy or innate viciousness of children. Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life In spite of the degeneracy of their clergy, which they are unable to feel, the Russians cling with patriotic affection to their Church, and identify its progress and prosperity with the increase of their empire. The History of Freedom Of all institutions, none has caused more intellectual degeneracy. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 The reputation, which had preceded him, made the race of monks tremble, for by their degeneracy, they had fallen into deserved contempt with the mass of the people. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli The sociologist found that the only test of acquired or inherited degeneracy in man was disaccord with environment. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Many similar cases of hereditary degeneracy are recorded in books on eugenics. Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life Modern degeneracy or refinement, or both, it is whispered, have lately carried it to half-past, but on the day of which we write it was precisely three. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 We refer to the decadence or degeneracy of this worship, which occurred after people had outgrown these simple religious conceptions. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation But when it fails so to do, because of democratic, or aristocratic degeneracy, it then writes its own condemnation. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli The sclerotic states of the appendix vermiformis in man and of the human liver are, as Kiernan has shown, two excellent illustrations of the degeneracies last described. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Another sign of the general degeneracy of the age—revolt from discipline, etc. Clark's Field But it is an error to suppose that man was intended to eat vegetables alone, and that, as some have said, the adoption of animal food is a sign of his degeneracy. Pedagogics as a System His æra was characterised by great degeneracy, due to Greek influences, and the manner in which he upheld failing Virtue won him the unmeasured regard of his contemporaries and successors. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 It makes us acquainted with idolatry in its most fearful degeneracy, and then, with the adoration of one God and the conflict, rising to the highest pitch of heroism, against this degeneracy. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli These degeneracies appear at varying periods, since struggles for existence on the part of the different organs and systems of the body are most ardent during periods of body evolution and involution. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z I am growing very fat, but at the present there is no fatty degeneracy of the heart, so that I still remain Affectionately yours, F. A. B. Lenox, Massachusetts, August 28th, 1840. Records of Later Life Social Conditions at the Beginning of the Christian Era.—The philosophy of the Greeks and Romans had reached a state of degeneracy at the time of the coming of Christ. History of Human Society Natural selection works as effectually in toning up the species by weeding out the worst as 'natural selection reversed' works for degeneracy through the removal of the best. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology He says that, in all probability, animal food was not permitted, though used, before the flood; and that its use, contrary to the wish of the Creator, was probably one cause of human degeneracy. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery The beneficial effects which may result from atavism are, it will be obvious, offset by this tendency of the neurotic to intermarry, thus perverting the principle of atavism to the assistance of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z This is a rule without exception, and is a reassuring reflection in view of the talk about the degeneracy of the House of Commons, and the decadence of its standard of manner. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly His heart revolted with each fresh revelation of the terrible degeneracy that possessed the lad. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country If this emigration of the best were the whole story, it would be impossible to refute the charge of degeneracy. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology The method by consanguinity seeks not the abnormalities of the patient himself, but the signs of disease and degeneracy in his blood relatives. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 Factors capable of producing idiocy are of course capable of producing less decided expressions of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z This is the active element in the degeneracy of religious idealism. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Even homosexual love that does not affect minors nor insane persons, is a sign of degeneracy, but produces no offspring and consequently dies out by means of selection. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study In fact it is thoroughly established that degeneracy is not the result of imperfect physical conditions only. Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex There is one disease that without other causes—either inherited degeneracy or vices resulting from a bad education and environment—is capable of transforming a healthy individual into a vicious, hopelessly evil being. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Writers who ignore these race characteristics have often brought serious criticism and even discredit on the doctrine of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z In addition he had the same full upper-lip, the same cleft in the chin, the same features refined almost to the point of degeneracy. The Paliser case For, where the black-winged ones had been ugly of feature, with every mark of degeneracy, these were the ultimate of loveliness in face and form. The Finding of Haldgren I'm telling you, so you may see that you have not to do with moral degeneracy. Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts The “Arcadians” organized themselves to protest against the degeneracy of Italian poetry that marked the seventeenth century. Italy, the Magic Land This last condition and the epileptic are the most dangerous as to the production of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Some degeneracy was upsetting his mental balance, and forcing him against his better instincts. The Twins of Suffering Creek A bad road is an indication and a producer of degeneracy in man and beast. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry There cannot surely be a greater proof of the degeneracy of the times than so unparalleled a degradation and so barbarous a perversion of terms. An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus Perhaps we are suffering to-day from over-toleration, that is, we tolerate not only those whose aspiration takes a different form, but those whose ideals lead to degeneracy. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Undoubtedly with the growing tendency of woman to pass from the ill-paid work of the seamstress to the better paid but dangerous occupations, a certain seeming increase in degeneracy must result. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Indeed, in spite of the horrible degeneracy, the prestige of victory was still, as it has ever been, with England. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Travel and the higher education have opened the storage vats of foreign degeneracy and piped them into our land. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry This united phalanx of bishops in Gaul conquered in the end even the excessive degeneracy, self-indulgence, and cruelty of the Merovingian race. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I They have all fixity of tenure, and so enjoy the privilege of criticising, as adversely as they like, the degeneracy of modern educational developments. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Every condition arising from a toxic cause capable of producing profound systemic nervous exhaustion in the ancestor, and especially the ancestress, is likely to be transmitted as degeneracy to the descendant. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The degeneracy of the age and the insidious influence of luxury no doubt. Blake's Burden In the countries referred to it induced corruption and degeneracy. Pius IX. And His Time We are men of a harder, sterner, simpler mould than the emasculate degeneracies of modern England! Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He regarded all these youthful aspirations as signs of the degeneracy of the times and a decay of spiritual life and, therefore, to be immediately quenched. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro In a word, the individual between 20 and 25 feels too much the influence of atavic characters, and too readily transmits to his posterity the brands of degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z In his veins ran a mongrelized strain of tendencies and vices which had hardened into a cruel and monstrous summary of vicious degeneracy. The Roof Tree Socially, this degeneracy is noticed by its process of gradually loosening, and finally severing the ties which bind man to his race. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science Plates, forks, and spoons are to them degeneracies,—things that no noble bushman needs or requires. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand While among the trappers and the Indians themselves he is known as the carcajo, or as bad dog—which is the Indian's idea of absolute cussedness and degeneracy. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country A factor of degeneracy as related to soil on which much stress has been laid, is that of goitre. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Pericles, that great man, so absolute, that those who envied him treated him as a second Pisistratus, was the first author of this degeneracy and corruption. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to be dragged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its powers. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III There is another influence at work in causing race degeneracy concerning which the majority of girls are ignorant, and that is immorality. What a Young Woman Ought to Know There are two monuments, and only two, in Italy, which redeem its modern architecture from the reproach of universal degeneracy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Certain conditions of the occiput have been described as associated with degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Many were the tears she shed over my degeneracy, and no words of mine could make her see other than a foolish waste of golden opportunities in the course I was pursuing. A Romantic Young Lady It is not immoral degeneracy, but its weakness is incapacity for action of any kind, inability to see and do the specific task. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study It was a sign, and even a measure, of ancient degeneracy, when the age of Gold was followed if not forgotten by one of Iron. Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883 Stagnation, degeneracy, and eventual death is merely the natural sequence. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit The effects of climate, soil, and food in the production of degeneracy are first shown in the causation of general loss of nerve tone in the ancestor, often with special local expressions. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It is not only in defense of ourselves, of our country, and of our own generation, that we refuse to emancipate our slaves, but to defend our posterity and race from degeneracy and degradation. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Such a degenerate man of culture is a serious matter, and it is a horrifying spectacle for us to see that all our scholarly and journalistic publicity bears the stigma of this degeneracy upon it. On the Future of our Educational Institutions Many add to this a dirty pillow, which is a mark of extravagance and an evidence of degeneracy. India, Its Life and Thought Incorrect views of the Spirit’s work have been entertained by theologians in consequence of erroneous conceptions regarding the degeneracy of human nature. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election The influence of any check to development such as produces degeneracy, is exerted first on the development of the bone itself, and finally on the relation to other bones by dovetailing. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z No! there is behind and below all these imaginary causes, a real cause for the degeneracy of the race. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Here, ye croakers about modern degeneracy, here is something that should cover you with confusion and shame. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Sordello, in pointing them out, takes occasion to enlarge on the degeneracy of their sons, making a special exception in favour of Edward, son of Henry. Dante: His Times and His Work This fact does not imply either original sinfulness or degeneracy—religious and scientific terms for the same thing—in poor mankind. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Neither of these denotes complete intellectual degeneracy on the one hand, nor vast intellect on the other. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z You might take it seriously, and yet critically in another way, as a "degeneracy" of the Terror-Novel. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century It was born of selfishness and social degeneracy, and could perpetuate itself only in an age of corruption, because it inculcated the lawfulness of sensuality and the impunity of injustice. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Under the burden of sin, men accustomed themselves to the consciousness of degeneracy; each generation confessed that they were unworthy children of their parents, and awaited with impatience the approaching end. Lectures on the French Revolution It must always be borne in mind that the first effect of association with the more advanced race was not improvement but degeneracy. The Indian To-day The Past and Future of the First American Both these conditions denote deep degeneracy, which, however, may find expression elsewhere than in the moral sense or intellect. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The institution of patron and client, even in the state of degeneracy which overtook it, is a phenomenon which I believe is well-nigh unique. The Cult of Incompetence Stimulated by the social degeneracy of the times, the characteristic skepticism of the Greek intellect bursts forth anew. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It is the source of their physical degeneracy, for it compels them to marry within narrow lines of consanguinity. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ Such a mood is not by any means a sign of degeneracy. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations This type of skull, however, is usually associated with deep degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z It seems to create a slow degeneracy of the cells which nobody yet can understand. The Stretton Street Affair Such was the condition of society generally, and such the degeneracy of even the Government itself, that Plato impressively declares "that God alone could save the young men of his age from ruin." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The material civilization which the descendants of Cain introduced did not preserve them from moral degeneracy. Ancient States and Empires After a few personal inquiries the old man broke out into a most extraordinary and characteristic harangue on the wretched degeneracy of these evil days. Stories of Authors, British and American Like all other systemic nervous exhaustions, the mercurial one may appear as degeneracy in the offspring. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Like Byron, he was powerfully moved by the painful contrast between the classic grandeur of ancient Italy and the degeneracy of its latter days. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) When atavism and degeneracy are admitted as factors, as they certainly must be, the perpetuity of the human species fails from physical causes alone. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology It was easy to conquer; it was difficult to rule, when degeneracy and luxury became the vices of the Romans themselves. Ancient States and Empires Such a list of leading spirits indicates the absolute moral and religious degeneracy of the times and the need of some one to call Israel back to the service and worship of God. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition The poet Shelley had a head belonging very nearly to this category, but while he exhibited many stigmata of degeneracy, that of intellectual deficiency was wanting. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z As all the families both of plants and animals appear in a state of perpetual improvement or degeneracy, it becomes a subject of importance to detect the causes of these mutations. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Nemesis is written in letters of flame across the starry heavens, as an atonement for the blood of nations and the degeneracy and diabolism of an ambitious, cruel, relentless, and unrestrained priesthood. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology It is a sad proof of the degeneracy of the people that they were incapable of defense. Ancient States and Empires Some of the late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Adventure stories, before they dropped into prose, are indeed long enough, and a great deal too long; but they show degeneracy. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Whether this be due to degeneracy or not depends entirely on the race in which it occurs. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z From the same cause I suspect the degeneracy of some potatoes and of some strawberries to have arisen; where the curled leaf has appeared in the former, and barren flowers in the latter. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes The degeneracy of a people, the decay of religion, and the degradation of woman are inseparable, and it is so-called “religion” that institutes the change, and sets the pace, “down the steep descent.” The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology In spite of all the advantages of nature, he was degraded by debasing superstitions, and by the degeneracy which wealth and ease produced. Ancient States and Empires But what the Berliner Tageblatt and the Lokalanzeiger did not tell their readers, Jeb now realized with a shudder, would have made a chapter of degeneracy and revolting crime unparalleled in history. Where the Souls of Men are Calling Dolichocephaly, however, while it does not demonstrate, suggests degeneracy, since it seems to be a disappearing type of skull. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The generation growing old always think the generation still young in a state of degeneracy. The Huguenots in France No lesson in history is plainer nor more readily demonstrated than the fact that the degeneracy of a religion and the degradation of woman go hand in hand. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Every year his power increased, while the States of Greece remained inactive and uncombined—a proof of the degeneracy of the times—certainly in regard to self-sacrifices to secure their independence. Ancient States and Empires And the other two, whose minds had been snapped by horrors and privations—did their locked-in souls realize these things to be the result of military necessity?—or a nation's degeneracy! Where the Souls of Men are Calling The age of the parent plays a part in degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z I wish I might follow the use of the word comfort from its early nobility as you see it here down to its modern degeneracy, where it signifies the mere satisfaction of the body. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance A noble creed, or a philosophical concept of a highly advanced race, may exist as a transformed and degrading superstition with a race, or a fragment of a people, undergoing degeneracy. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology Disuse during lifetime would also cause some amount of degeneracy; and I am not sure that Mr. Spencer is right in entirely excluding economy of nutrition from the problem. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin The idea that stone implements are an index to man in the beginning of his existence is an unwarranted conceit; they may point to a degeneracy. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Toxic Agents The toxic agents which influence the race toward degeneracy, exert that deterioration in a mode which closely resembles that of the degenerative powers of the acute and chronic contagions and infections. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z They do not perceive that the only remedy 123 against this degeneracy is the renewal of faith in something greater and higher than our material needs. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Juvenal wrote in scathing, searing sarcasm of the degeneracy of the Roman youth; effemination was very prevalent, and this bitter satirist wrote burning words against their degrading and bestial practices. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Civilization largely sets aside the harsh but ultimately salutary action of the great law of Natural Selection without providing an efficient substitute for preventing degeneracy. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin This state of things is seized upon by those who are eager to put the worst possible construction on human nature and human conduct, as evidence of extreme degeneracy. The Spirit Proper to the Times. A Sermon preached in King's Chapel, Boston, Sunday, May 12, 1861. Alcohol has been repeatedly charged with being the factor in degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z He presents a marked contrast to the people of later generations; in this one respect is shown the great degeneracy of the race. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The love of money was the best defence against degeneracy of every kind, and he gasped with simple-hearted pride when he thought of the millions of dollars which his healthy, primitive compatriots were amassing. American Sketches 1908 We are evidently traveling a downhill road and the tide of degeneracy is rising so fast it will certainly sweep us on to race extinction unless we return to sane and biologic living. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 Let it not be vainly imagined, that our state of civilization must prevent the moral degeneracy here threatened. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Such total abstainers leave degenerate offspring in which degeneracy assumes the type of excess in alcohol as well as even lower phases. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z I wish James would write about modern society, about “degeneracy” and the new woman and all the rest of it. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Let men and women join to stay the degeneracy which has begun to set in, and which, unchecked, will grow deadlier with each generation as it succeeds. Horace Yet Lipsius permits himself to suppose the loss of courage, and the evident degeneracy of mankind, to be nearly connected with the abolition of these bloody spectacles. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 These people will say "So far from aiming at slavery, the Eugenists are seeking true liberty; liberty from disease and degeneracy, etc." Eugenics and Other Evils Since then there has sprung into existence in both Europe and the English-speaking countries the world over, a habit which, while much over-estimated, is undoubtedly growing, and aggravating as well as producing degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The degeneracy of the laws caused the misery of the peasantry, and paralyzed the energies of the empire. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Its early maritime history does, indeed, present a striking picture of enterprise and restless energy, but the annals of Europe afford no similar instance of rapid degeneracy. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) And we also know that the product of this diversified inefficiency is what constitutes the decadence and the degeneracy of the human race. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The graphic history of the Doasyoulikes is rather a clear-cut study in degeneracy for older people, as well as a lively warning for youngsters. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide In other respects acute and chronic contagions and infections exert the same influence in regard to degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z But they too had participated in the universal degeneracy. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They outraged them by the admixture of kindred blood, and degeneracy was often the result. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch To dignify the malicious intentions and idle nothings of an evil mind by carrying them further is an expression of degeneracy that is urgently in need of active disinfection. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Yet leering through his degeneracy, his identity could not be mistaken. The Snowshoe Trail The chronic contagions and infections are most fertile sources of human degeneracy since their weakened products are enabled to survive under modern beneficence. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z He was here called to order, and reminded that Michael Angelo had nothing to do with the degeneracy of the Sixth. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story A few individuals turned out superior to the parent but on the whole degeneracy, from the nut-producers standpoint, appears among seedlings of hybrid chestnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 Osman�II., fearing their power, and disgusted with their degeneracy, resolved to destroy them, as dangerous to the state. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Why should he not leave this man to his filthy cabin and his degeneracy and never let Virginia know of their meeting? The Snowshoe Trail The influence of nutrition in producing nervous states likely to be transmitted as degeneracy in the offspring are excellently illustrated in the nervous disorders due to improper nutrition during youth. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z If a farmer persists in what is called "breeding in and in," that is, from the same stock without changing the blood, it is well known that a rapid degeneracy is the inevitable consequence. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual He who thundered against the degeneracy of journalism accepted the patronage of the titled promoter of the half-penny press. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties But when have men, in their degeneracy, been governed by their reason? A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The plaint is of the degeneracy among men, of the destruction of primitive simplicity in Corsica by the French occupation, of his own isolation, and of his yearning to see his friends once more. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) School Strain Like all factors of degeneracy, school strain evinces itself in a systemic nervous exhaustion manifest along lines of least resistance, as in the neuroses of Christopher. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Have we any reason to suppose that the bee is an exception? or that ultimate degeneracy would not ensue, unless some provision was made to counteract the tendency to in and in breeding? Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual Improvement is ever slow and difficult; degeneracy is too often startling rapid. St. Winifred's, or The World of School Human nature showed its degeneracy in the camp and on the field of battle, among heroes and among patriots. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges If that is true, it is only a detail of the degeneracy of Italy from the middle of the sixteenth century. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The variability of the occipital bone which, as just shown, is so frequently associated with all forms of degeneracy, is still better understood when we remember that it is of vertebral character. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z As Stuart looked into the faces of the crowd he saw no trace of the degeneracy and loss of elemental manhood which makes the sight of an European mob loathsome and hopeless. The Root of Evil Some who like to bewail the degeneracy of our art and literature and of our drama, declare that its popularity is simply due to a fashion. Confessions of a Book-Lover The colony, however,—such is the weakness of man, such the degeneracy of his nature,—was doomed to dissension. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Some have maintained, not understanding the bearing of the facts, that such degeneracy is more conspicuous in the frame of woman than anywhere else. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother Cleft palates are comparatively rare in proportion to other forms of nutritive degeneracy. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z You fill me with repulsion—I measured the depth of your degeneracy at Pisa. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance We can no longer talk of the degeneracy of American literary taste when we know that this very American, characteristic, and illuminating book was a "best seller" in our country for several months. Confessions of a Book-Lover Such is man in his weakness and his degeneracy; and only an omnipotent power can change this ordinary temper of the devotees to pleasure and inglorious gains. 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