 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 294 str.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which... | |
 | Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 296 str.
...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1927 - 342 str.
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the;r occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1928 - 422 str.
...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident. ... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1928 - 422 str.
...Wordsworth, writing his Preface to Lyrical Ballads in the year 1800, might have been speaking of our own day. causes are the great national events which are daily...increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the unifnrniity t>f t-hpjr j)ccupations produces a craving for extraordinary jocident. ... To this tendency... | |
 | Henry Goodman - 1929 - 536 str.
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 | 1973 - 602 str.
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For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective... 
