It's even become suspect, a sign of imbecility or intolerance.
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" The Post sneered at "the jaw-dropping imbecility of this idea.
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" Another Cabaret Voltaire performer, Romanian artist Tristan Tzara, described its nightly shows as "explosions of elective imbecility.
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"I've always tried to make Montalbano critical about the behavior and orders of his bosses, the imbecility of power," he said.
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Imbecility in the government; discord among the provinces; foreign influence and indignities; a precarious existence in peace, and peculiar calamities from war.
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His secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, wrote letters to friends about the "painful imbecility of Lincoln" and his administration's venality and corruption.
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Take the case of five-year old Elisabeth Schreiber, for example, whose diagnosis from Asperger read:Erethic imbecility, probably on a post-encephalitic basis.
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A democracy once identified with great names such as Mohandas Gandhi has degenerated into Trumpland — an inferno of systemic brutishness, imbecility and mendacity.
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To the Editor: Let's consider for a moment the imbecility of the suggestion that teachers be armed and ready to return fire in the event of another school shooting.
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It's difficult to pick the craziest of the arguments that President Trump is making about the shutdown — there's a vast buffet of imbecility to choose from — but here's my good-faith effort. 1.
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Bret: Pelosi personifies the Democratic Party a lot of people love to hate: wealthy coastal liberals who have been in office forever and cannot imagine why anyone who voted for Trump did so for reasons other than bigotry or imbecility.
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Simple. I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male environment you're so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility.
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It is partly because of this history, and because those most involved in it are often the most disposed to downplay or ignore it, that both liberals and leftists often dismiss "nostalgia" in politics as an attitude somewhere between imbecility and evil.
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If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility, Nietzscheism would end in imbecility.
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. . Those affected were often referred to as "Mongoloids" or in terms of "Mongolian idiocy" or "Mongolian imbecility".
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"Davison, Roderic H. "Russian Skill and Turkish Imbecility": The Treaty of Kuchuk Kainardji Reconsidered." , n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2013. Because of the treaty, the Russians were accorded the right to build a church in Constantinople's Galata quarter.
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The meaning was further refined into mental and moral imbecility.Kerlin, Isaac N. (1889). "Moral imbecility". Proceedings of the Association of Medical Officers of American Institutions for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Persons, 15–18.Fernald, Walter E. (1 April 1909).
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In The Mongol in Our Midst, Crookshank argued that "Mongolian imbecility", thought at the time to affect only Caucasian people, was the result of the distant racial history of a person with the disorder. Crookshank argued that both parents of a person with "Mongolian imbecility" either carried genetic traits inherited from a commonly shared "Mongoloid" ancestor, or that all Caucasians shared a distant "Mongoloid" ancestry. As a result, "Mongolian imbecility" constituted an atavistic genetic throwback, wherein the supposed ancestral genetic traits of the individual reappeared, having been "lost" throughout generations of ancestors and evolutionary change. Crookshank believed the re-emergence of these genetic traits was due to the individual in question's incomplete development in the womb.. Crookshank deemed "Mongolian imbeciles" to be a "race apart" from Caucasian people, describing that "For better or for worse, they are not quite as are other men and women around them", and describing English patients with the condition as "Mongol expatriates".
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The Modern Language Review. 101.4 (2006): 1005–1024. . This degeneration can be passed from generation to generation, resulting in imbecility and senility due to hereditary influence. Max Nordau's Degeneration holds that the two dominant traits of those degenerated in a society involve ego mania and mysticism.
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Party of Donkeys or Donkeys' Party (; Donkey is epitome of docile imbecility) was a frivolous political party in Iran. It was founded in 1963, when the New Iran Party vs. the People's Party rivalry was shaped. The party had members with green membership cards and held gatherings.
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I was to have been on the cushion long ago! But disliking stupidity and imbecility, I don't manage to keep my mouth shut. Moreover, I don't care for it and feel good. All that I achieved in my life was achieved by my talent and industry.
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The Dublin Review, (1889), Volume 106, page 440 Poetic justice is amply wreaked in the end on all ill-doers in an accumulation of horrors, including a parricide, a suicide, a leper husband returned to claim his wife, and her collapse from the shock into paralysis and imbecility.
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Berrios, German E. (1996). The History of Mental Symptoms: Descriptive Psychopathology Since the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: p. 427. However, Whitlock has suggested that the diagnosis gradually changed into moral imbecility over the turn of the century and that in turn transformed into something like the current concept of psychopathy.
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The last three members of the group are then captured. Grant soon recognizes that their captor's name is identical to the Spanish term for "spider", "araña". Aranya cures Masterson from drug-induced imbecility, hoping to recruit him. This backfires as Masterson uses his intellect in a suicide attack.
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It was the most extensive in Europe, and had been purchased by the king, who, however, left him the use of it during his life. This task performed, he sank into a total imbecility both of mind and body, which continued for two years, till his death in January 1782.
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Printed as 336 in error. In August 1491 Redman discovered that discipline was suffering because of the "impotence and imbecility" of the abbot and found it necessary to forbid the canons to gamble or keep hounds.Gasquet, F. A. (ed.) (1906). Collectanea Anglo- Premonstratensia, volume 2, pp. 179—81, no. 365—6.
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Margaret was originally in 1257 betrothed to Henry IV, Duke of Brabant, son of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and Alice of Burgundy. This betrothal was terminated because of the imbecility of Henry.Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, CAPET Henry was deposed in 1267. Henry's brother, John I, Duke of Brabant married Margaret on September 5, 1270.
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Some of these exempting circumstances are imbecility or youth. On the other hand, the presence of one or more mitigating circumstances when a crime is committed, can serve to reduce the penalty imposed. An example is voluntary surrender. Lastly, the presence of aggravating circumstances will increase the penalty imposed under the crime, upon conviction.
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"Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)", in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith. St. James Press, 1986, (p.779-83). Joseph Conrad complained to Wells that he did not "take sufficient account of human imbecility, which is cunning and perfidious."David C. Smith, H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 100.
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Alexander Pope, author of The Dunciad The Dunciad is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times from 1728 to 1743. The poem celebrates a goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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As in 1736 the southern force was slow. Bienville finally arrived in November and reviewed the force which numbered 1200 Europeans and 2400 Indians, roughly twice the men available in 1736. But the army had already suffered greatly from sickness. To this was added short rations, discontent and desertion during the 'imbecility' of the coming months.
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The villagers feigned imbecility when the royal messengers arrived.Noodles, Nitwits and Numbskulls by Kurt Werth, Dell Pub Co, 1979. Wherever the messengers went, they saw the rustics engaged in some absurd task. Based on this report, John determined to have his hunting lodge elsewhere, and the wise men boasted, "We ween there are more fools pass through Gotham than remain in it."G.
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' She also sang for several seasons at Vauxhall Gardens. In 1824, she began to exhibit symptoms of imbecility, which developed into a kind of melancholy. On 5 July 1824 a performance was given for her benefit at Drury Lane, which produced (together with a public subscription) about 800l. The money was handed over to Lord Egremont, who allowed her an annuity of 80l.
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The Mongol in Our Midst: A Study of Man and His Three Faces is the title of the pseudo-scientific book written by British physician Francis Graham Crookshank and published in 1924. The book, characteristic of the consequently discredited ideas of scientific racism prevalent at the time, explored and presented the idea that "Mongolian imbecility" (a form of intellectual disability now called Down's syndrome and known to be caused by the replication (trisomy) of the chromosome 21) was an atavistic throwback to, and/or the result of, rape committed by members of the supposedly more primitive "Mongoloid races" (such as the Huns, Avars or the Mongols themselves) in the wake of their various invasions of Europe throughout history. The book also claimed that "Mongolian imbecility" was partly the result of Ashkenazi Jews having interbred with the steppe tribe of the Khazars.
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After the second generation, the mental alienation led to imbecility. Finally, the fourth generation was destined to be sterile. In Morel's theory, degeneration was synonymous with anything that was different from the natural or normal state. These abnormalities were caused by environmental influences like diet, disease, and moral depravities or traits that were passed from generation to generation like alcoholism and living in the slums.
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Other reviewers spoke of its "gross perversion of intellect" and "tincture of imbecility", and pronounced it "superlatively silly", "daudling, impotent drivel" and "of all Mr. Wordsworth's poems…decidedly the worst". Gill 1990, p. 332. Byron, in his Don Juan, sneered that Wordsworth "makes / Another outcry for 'a little boat', / And drivels seas to set it well afloat". Even close friends could offer little comfort.
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Salpingectomies were performed in the United States in the early 20th century in accordance with eugenics legislation. From Buck v. Bell (1927): > The Virginia statute providing for the sexual sterilization of inmates of > institutions supported by the State who shall be found to be afflicted with > an hereditary form of insanity or imbecility, is within the power of the > State under the Fourteenth Amendment.Buck v.
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Some historians have concluded that Miles was struck by artillery deliberately fired by his own men, but there is no conclusive proof.Eicher, p. 347. The resulting surrender of 12,419 men was the largest number of U.S. soldiers surrendered until the Battle of Bataan in World War II. The court of inquiry into the surrender denounced Miles for "incapacity, amounting to almost imbecility."Teetor, p. 238.
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The imbecility of men, history teaches us, always > invites the impudence of power. A fallout of the Emergency era was the Supreme Court laid down that, although the Constitution is amenable to amendments (as abused by Indira Gandhi), changes that tinker with its basic structureV. Venkatesan, Revisiting a verdict Frontline (vol. 29 – Issue 01 :: 14–27 Jan 2012) cannot be made by the Parliament.
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Foot's camp believed that, nevertheless, Gaitskell would have been pleased to see Foot obtain a poor result at the polls.Mervyn Jones, "Michael Foot", Victor Gollancz, London, 1994, p. 250. During the last week, Foot attacked Rhys Williams for "imbecility" in suggesting that the west had been 'at war' with Russia since 1945."Progress of the Campaign in 'Little Election'", The Times, 14 November 1960, p. 8.
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John Ikechukwu Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu, is a Nigerian actor and comedian. Okafor is considered to be one of Nigeria's most talented comic characters. His humorous acting is often characterized by stupidity, hilarious imbecility and a sharp disconnection from reality. He hails from Nkanu West L.G., Enugu State. After elementary school, in 1974, Okafor moved to Sapele to stay with his brother, after his father’s demise.
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See also Sandqvist, pp. 130, 132 He reserved scatological outbursts for the Ententist Vasile Drumaru and his "National Dignity" paramilitaries, also decrying the "populist imbecility" of nationalist authors such as Popescu- Popnedea or Constantin Banu.Cernat (2007), pp. 107–108 Once Romania declared war on the Central Powers, Vinea was drafted into the Romanian Land Forces. Serving continuously, but behind the lines, from August 1916 to 1919,Funeriu, pp.
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The Problem of the state and the intrigues of the period proved to be too complicated for him, and he constantly referred to his palmy princely days passed in Dihing in contrast to his thorny life at Garhgaon as the head of state. Sujinphaa lost his throne and his life as a retribution for his imbecility as a sovereign; however unsurpassed he might have been in the sphere of refinement and good breeding.
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Ayilyam Thirunal was born on 14 March 1832 to Rani Rukmini Bayi, the only sister of Maharajahs Swathi Thirunal and Uthram Thirunal. In the Travancore Royal Family inheritance and primogeniture was determined by the Marumakkathayam system i.e. through the female line. With the accession of Uthram Thirunal in 1846 and his elder brother's exclusion from the line of succession due to imbecility, Ayilyam Thirunal became the Elaya Rajah or heir apparent of Travancore State.
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He described his fellow passengers as: "...degenerates of the worst type of Irish, Scottish and Welsh. There did not appear to be many English; at least they did not speak the English language." They were "no credit to Great Britain and no acquisition to Australia, which should slam the door in their faces." He described some of the male passengers as "on the verge of imbecility" and others as "street-corner loafers".
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In the nineteenth century, French psychiatrists began to observe kleptomaniacal behavior, but were constrained by their approach. By 1890, a large body of case material on kleptomania had been developed. Hysteria, imbecility, cerebral defect, and menopause were advanced as theories to explain these seemingly nonsensical behaviors, and many linked kleptomania to immaturity, given the inclination of young children to take whatever they want. These French and German observations later became central to psychoanalytic explanations of kleptomania.
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"[O]ne could at the very least offer the tentative speculation that Hulot's obsessional debauchery is in part the result of a certain poverty in Adeline, that the terrible logic of Hulot's excess is partially shaped by a crucial deficiency in his wife."Prendergast, p. 323. Others are less accusatory; Adeline's nearly infinite mercy, they say, is evidence of foolishness. Critic Herbert J. Hunt declares that she shows "more imbecility than Christian patience",Hunt, p. 386.
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1, New York: R. H. Dodd. pp.407–08 Noted architecture critic Lewis Mumford, a vehement protester against the plan, complained about the "blank imbecility" of this "civic folly" with its "long monotonous streets that terminated nowhere, filled by rows of monotonous houses." He wrote in The City in History (1961): "Such plans fitted nothing but a quick parcelling of the land, a quick conversion of farmsteads into real estate, and a quick sale."Koeppel (2015), p.
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The League promoted married women's economic independence and laws requiring child support from absent fathers, as measures likely to improve public and private morality. She opened and funded a home for working women, the National Christian League Home for the Benefit of Self- Supporting Women, in 1895. She was also an advocate of eugenic sterilization, backing a law allowing the procedure in cases of "promiscuous propagation of imbecility and criminality." She traveled often in her work for the League, on lecture tours and attending international conferences.
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"Mongoloid" has had a second usage, now generally avoided as highly offensive: until the late 20th century, people with Down syndrome were often referred to as "Mongoloids", or in terms of "Mongolian idiocy" or "Mongolian imbecility". The term was motivated by the observation that people with Down syndrome often have epicanthic folds. Coined in 1908, the term remained in medical usage until the 1950s. In 1961, its use was deprecated by a group of genetic experts in an article in The Lancet due to its "misleading connotations".
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The term feeble-minded was used from the late nineteenth century in Europe, the United States and Australasia for disorders later referred to as illnesses or deficiencies of the mind. At the time, mental deficiency encompassed all degrees of educational and social deficiency. Within the concept of mental deficiency, researchers established a hierarchy, ranging from idiocy, at the most severe end of the scale; to imbecility, at the median point; and to feeble-mindedness at the highest end of functioning. The latter was conceived of as a form of high-grade mental deficiency.
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Pinel's successor, Esquirol, extended Pinel's categories to five. Both made a clear distinction between insanity (including mania and dementia) as opposed to mental retardation (including idiocy and imbecility). Esquirol developed a concept of monomania—a periodic delusional fixation or undesirable disposition on one theme—that became a broad and common diagnosis and a part of popular culture for much of the 19th century. The diagnosis of "moral insanity" coined by James Prichard also became popular; those with the condition did not seem delusional or intellectually impaired but seemed to have disordered emotions or behavior.
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Murdstone, apparently feeling remorse for the first time for his actions, merely leaves without a word. Murdstone and his sister appear a few times later in the novel, associated in business with David's employer Mr. Spenlow. Near the end of the novel, the adult David learns from an old acquaintance that Murdstone, despite Aunt Betsey's scolding, reverted to his old ways, married a rich young woman and "since the sister came to help, the brother and sister between them have nearly reduced her to a state of imbecility".
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In April of 1839, Napier was put in command of 6,000 troops in the Northern District, with one of his designated tasks being to confront the many Chartist protests active in the area. As a leftist who in principle agreed with the Chartist demands for Democracy, Napier made efforts to keep violence to a minimum and calm tensions in the area as best he could whilst still obeying his orders. Napier privately blamed "Tory injustice and Whig imbecility" for the conflicts, and pitied the Chartists rather than feared them.
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Takamura's time spent in America was hard and had great impact on his sculpture work and literary work. Takamura additionally studied in London in 1907, where he met his best friend Bernard Leach. Finishing his studies in Paris in 1908, returning to Japan in 1909A Brief History of Imbecility, Hiroaki Sato, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, xv-xvi, and lived there for the rest of his life. His sculptural work shows strong influence both from Western work (especially Auguste Rodin, whom he idolized) and from the Shirakabaha society.
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In 1924, Zarifopol informed his protectors that he now had "a holy terror of officialdom", and that he resented Iași for its support for the National-Christian Defense League, a form of "nationalist imbecility and charlatanry". As he noted: "all things considered, I can make a living from journalism alone."Nastasă (2010), p. 375 A guest writer at Camil Petrescu's Săptămâna Intelectuală și Artistică in 1924,Sdrobiș, p. 311 and, in 1925, at Cuvântul Liber,Lovinescu (1926), p. 276 Zarifopol became more deeply involved in the cultural debates of Greater Romania.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) dropped the term in 1965 after a request by the delegation from the Mongolian People's Republic. While the term mongoloid (also mongolism, Mongolian imbecility or idiocy) continued to be used until the early 1980s, it is now considered unacceptable and is no longer in common use. In 1975, the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a conference to standardize the naming and recommended replacing the possessive form, "Down's syndrome" with "Down syndrome". However, both the possessive and nonpossessive forms remain in use by the general population.
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She was "retained in 2A" for the next > term – or "left back" as was formerly said, and scarcely a sign of > imbecility as I remember all my buddies who suffered a similar fate. In any > case, she again did well in her final term, with B in deportment, reading, > and spelling, and C in writing, English, and mathematics during her last > month in school. This offspring of "lewd and immoral" women excelled in > deportment and performed adequately, although not brilliantly, in her > academic subjects. By all accounts Vivian was of average intelligence, far above feeblemindedness.
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Philip of Naples and Sicily, "Duke of Calabria", Infante of Spain (13 June 1747 – 19 September 1777)Prince Felipe of Naples and Sicily, Infante of Spain, Duke of Calabria was the eldest son and heir-apparent of Charles III of Spain, but was excluded from the succession to the thrones of Spain and Naples due to his imbecility. His younger brothers, Charles IV of Spain and Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies replaced him in the succession. When his father became King of Spain in 1759, Philip remained in Naples where he lived until his death from smallpox at the age of thirty.
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Though most of her commentaries are highly critical and sometimes malicious, her boldness reaches its peak when she asserts that William Butler Yeats "represents the last state in symbolic imbecility".Modern Drama in Europe: 207 Jameson's collection of novellas, Women Against Men, was admired by The Times reviewer, Harold Strauss, who stated, "So completely is she the master of her art, so instinctively the craftsman, so superlatively the selective artist, that a restrained evaluation of her work is difficult for a student of the novel.""Books: New & Noteworthy" by Patricia T. O'Conner. The New York Times, 12 January 1986.
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A visiting magistrate reported that while Childs was "a most amiable benevolent gentleman and honorable officer" what was needed to avoid anarchy and insubordination was "an officer of experience in, or capacity for, government, judgement, energy, decision and firmness". Childs was recalled but, before he left, a group of convicts revolted in July 1846, murdering four officials. Thirteen convicts were convicted of murder and hanged by Childs' successor, John Price, who considered Childs responsible for the state of affairs that led to the revolt. A newspaper report at the time blamed the situation on Childs' "utter imbecility".
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Imbecility, injustice, malice, etc., are not accidents, but are negations of the accidents of conception, justice, and benevolence. Thus from the knowledge of his physical being man derives his conception of the material world; from that of his soul he acquires his conception of the spiritual world; and both of them lead to the cognizance of the Creator. Maimonides in Guide to the Perplexed (I:72) also notes the man- as-microcosm theme, but limits this analogy to one of rulership: Just as man without the rule of his rational faculties would perish, so to the world without its Ruler would perish.
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In July 1933, the "Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring" prescribed compulsory sterilisation for people with conditions thought to be hereditary, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, Huntington's chorea and "imbecility". Sterilisation was also legalised for chronic alcoholism and other forms of social deviance. The law was administered by the Interior Ministry under Wilhelm Frick through special Hereditary Health Courts (), which examined the inmates of nursing homes, asylums, prisons, aged-care homes and special schools, to select those to be sterilised. It is estimated that 360,000 people were sterilised under this law between 1933 and 1939.
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Rabinovitch edited the Journal of Mental Pathology which also published articles authored by her. In 1901 she wrote an article on what we would term today Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: > Alcoholism of the parents is the major cause responsible for the birth of > idiot and imbecile children. Alcoholism not only causes idiocy and > imbecility of The offspring, but also acts as a strong factor in reducing > birth rate and increasing death rate. Children of alcoholic parents, if not > idiots and imbeciles, are apt to be invalid in many other ways and are prone > to die in infancy of meningitis.
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31, 1998, The Guidebook Company Limited, Retrieved on June 4, 2008 The third group was a small minority of Indian and Malays known as Malabars, usually trained as domestic servants and the fourth and largest group was the Mozambiques, brought from the country by boat to work on the plantations. They were widely seen as inferior to the others slaves in the islands, and reports of their preference of working completely naked, and inability to learn local customs saw them named as Mazambik in Kreol, which today is used as an insult for barbarity or imbecility.
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The character of Werner is based on Brösel's and his brother Andi's experiences. Werner's life is that of an unemployed biker that consists of souping up his motorcycle and consuming large amounts of beer (known as Bölkstoff in the comics). Both regularly gets him in trouble with the police and the German vehicle safety agency TÜV who due to their expressed incompetency and imbecility are usually ignored and duped by Werner. In the movies, Werner is voiced by Northern German band Torfrock's singer Klaus Büchner (whereas Torfrock also wrote part of the original soundtrack of the first movie, and partly did for the sequels as well).
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Immanuel Kant rejects revenge as vicious. Regarding the latter, David Hume argues that because "anger and hatred are passions inherent in our very frame and constitution, the lack of them is sometimes evidence of weakness and imbecility". Martha Nussbaum has also agreed that even "great injustice" is no "excuse for childish and undisciplined behavior". Two main differences between the modern understanding and ancient understanding of anger can be detected, Kemp and Strongman state: one is that early philosophers were not concerned with possible harmful effects of the suppression of anger; the other is that, recently, studies of anger take the issue of gender differences into account.
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Many of Guiteau's contemporaries believed that he was seriously deranged, and "I am Going to the Lordy" helped exemplify their point. Combined with his behavior at the trial, which included frequent profanity and insults towards nearly everyone in the court, writing epic poems as his testimony, and soliciting legal advice from spectators via passed notes, the poem convinced many spectators that Guiteau was insane. "I am Going to the Lordy" was marked as "pathetic", and the entire event was labeled as "obvious imbecility." The people who came out to watch the execution "shout[ed], hoot[ed], curs[ed], and boo[ed]" as Guiteau came up on stage and recited his poem.
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In what Hall described as an act of "imbecility coupled with momentary panic", Jonathan Cape sent a copy of The Well to the Home Secretary for his opinion, offering to withdraw the book if it would be in the public interest to do so. The Home Secretary was William Joynson-Hicks, a Conservative known for his crackdowns on alcohol, nightclubs and gambling, as well as for his opposition to a revised version of The Book of Common Prayer. He took only two days to reply that The Well was "gravely detrimental to the public interest"; if Cape did not withdraw it voluntarily, criminal proceedings would be brought.
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It would be strange if it could not call upon > those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, > often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being > swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of > waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for > their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from > continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is > broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.... Three generations of > imbeciles are enough. Noted Virginia eugenicist Joseph DeJarnette testified against Buck in the original trial.
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The last two he described as the "senium", a period of mental and physical decay, and that the final phase was when "the scene of mortal existence closes after a great length of time that very fortunately, few of the human species arrive at, where the mind is reduced to the imbecility of the first epoch of infancy". In 550 BC, the Athenian statesman and poet Solon argued that the terms of a man's will might be invalidated if he exhibited loss of judgement due to advanced age. Chinese medical texts made allusions to the condition as well, and the characters for "dementia" translate literally to "foolish old person".
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Matheson expressed his views plainly, contemporaneously describing, "... the Chinese [as] a people characterised by a marvelous degree of imbecility, avarice, conceit and obstinacy..." Matheson returned to Asia in 1838 and the following year Jardine left for England to continue lobbying. Jardine's lobbying efforts proved more effective than his partner's and he succeeded in persuading the new British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston to wage war on Qing China. The subsequent First Opium War led to the Treaty of Nanking which allowed Jardine Matheson to expand from Canton to Hong Kong and Mainland China. After Jardine died a bachelor in 1843, his nephews David and Andrew Jardine assisted James Matheson in running the Hong as Tai-Pan.
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"We can readily believe", Hazlitt explains, "that Mr. Wilberforce's first object and principle of action is to do what he thinks right: his next (and that we fear is of almost equal weight with the first) is to do what will be thought so by other people." The result, muses Hazlitt, is that he becomes accused, and understandably so, of "affectation, cant, hollow professions, trimming, fickleness, and effeminate imbecility." So in love with praise, both popular and in the highest circles, is Wilberforce, observes Hazlitt, that he was even half inclined to give up his favourite cause, abolition of the slave trade, when William Pitt, the Prime Minister, was set to abandon it,Hazlitt 1930, vol. 11, p. 149.
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French rapper's new CD a bit mainstream - Features The album pays tribute to Senegal, where he spent his childhood. He uses the album to condemn the role of the World Bank in developing nations. This is most apparent on the track "Les Colonies," where the lyrics state, "Dans cette ère de négoce où ne vivent que les big boss/ Rentabilité - instabilité - imbécillité/ N'ont fait qu'augmenter les taux de mortalité," meaning, "In this era of trade where only the big bosses live/ Profitability - instability - imbecility/ Have done nothing but increase rates of mortality," referring to policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. MC Solaar also discusses the condition of African immigrants in France.
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Biographers have sometimes noted the occurrence of mental illness in the Huxley family. His father became "sunk in worse than childish imbecility of mind",letter THH to eldest sister Lizzie 1853 HP 31.21 and later died in Barming Asylum; brother George suffered from "extreme mental anxiety"THH to Lizzie 1858 HP 31.24 and died in 1863 leaving serious debts. Brother James, a well known psychiatrist and Superintendent of Kent County Asylum, was at 55 "as near mad as any sane man can be";THH to Lizzie HP 31.44 and there is more. His favourite daughter, the artistically talented Mady (Marian), who became the first wife of artist John Collier, was troubled by mental illness for years.
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571-573, : "To pre-empt this, the ABVP (the student wing of the RSS and the BJP) and allied forces let loose the spectre of violence which the administration, instead of controlling, instigated further."Navneet Sharma and Anamica, "Imbecility and Impudence: The Emergency and RSS", Mainstream Weekly, VOL LV, No 30, 16 July 2017: "The ideological parent of the BJP, the RSS, and its student wing, the ABVP, have their own crucial role in the BJP's anti- democratic-secular India agenda." In 2017, the ABVP faced a string of losses in student body elections. They included not only Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University, but also the Allahabad University and Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth in Uttar Pradesh, the Gujarat University and the Gauhati University.
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" The 1923 Code of Alabama amended "Carnal knowledge of woman or girl by administering drug, etc." by changing each use of "female" to "woman or girl" (additions underlined; removals struck through):1923 Code of Alabama, Vol. II "Criminal," Ch. 221 "Rape and Kindred Offenses," p. 748, § 5409, "Carnal knowledge of woman or girl by administering drug, etc." > "Any person who has carnal knowledge of any ~~female~~ _woman or girl_ above > fourteen years of age, without her consent, by administering to her any drug > or other substance which produces such stupor, imbecility of mind ~~,~~ or > weakness of body, as to prevent effectual resistance, must _,_ on > conviction, be punished ~~,~~ at the discretion of the jury, by death ~~,~~ > or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than ten years.
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote the ruling. He argued the interest of "public welfare" outweighed the interest of individuals in bodily integrity: > We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best > citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon > those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, > often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being > swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world, if instead of > waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for > their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from > continuing their kind.
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On 23 September 1940, a landing by de Gaulle's troops was repulsed and, in the ensuing naval engagement, four British capital ships were damaged while the Vichy French lost two destroyers and a submarine. Finally Churchill ordered the operation to be called off. The Free French had been snubbed by their countrymen; de Gaulle and Spears were deeply depressed, the latter fearing for his own reputation – and rightly so. The Daily Mirror wrote: “Dakar has claims to rank with the lowest depths of imbecility to which we have yet sunk.” De Gaulle was further discredited with the Americans and began to criticise Spears openly, telling Churchill that he was 'intelligent but egotistical and hampering because of his unpopularity at the War Office etc.'.
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2 "Rape and Related Offenses," p. 52, § 13-1-132, "Carnal knowledge -- By administering drug, etc." > "Any person who has carnal knowledge of any woman or girl above ~~fourteen~~ > _14_ years of age, without her consent, by administering to her any drug or > other substance which produces such stupor, imbecility of mind or weakness > of body ~~,~~ as to prevent effectual resistance, shall _,_ on conviction, > be punished ~~at the discretion of the jury, by death or~~ by imprisonment > in the penitentiary for not less than ten years." The 1975 Code of Alabama amended "Carnal knowledge -- Girl under 12 years of age" to remove the jury's explicit role in determining sentences and to remove the death penalty as an available sentence (additions underlined; removals struck through):1975 Code of Alabama, Vol.
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" Frederick the Great noted the significance of a philosopher capable of influencing judges to change their unjust decisions, commenting that this alone is sufficient to ensure the prominence of Voltaire as a humanitarian. Under the French Third Republic, anarchists and socialists often invoked Voltaire's writings in their struggles against militarism, nationalism, and the Catholic Church. The section condemning the futility and imbecility of war in the Dictionnaire philosophique was a frequent favorite, as were his arguments that nations can only grow at the expense of others. Following the liberation of France from the Vichy regime in 1944, Voltaire's 250th birthday was celebrated in both France and the Soviet Union, honoring him as "one of the most feared opponents" of the Nazi collaborators and someone "whose name symbolizes freedom of thought, and hatred of prejudice, superstition, and injustice.
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Whose weakness does not amount to imbecility, yet who require care, supervision, or control, for their protection or for the protection of others, or, in the case of children, are incapable of receiving benefit from the instruction in ordinary schools. :d) Moral Imbeciles. Displaying mental weakness coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities, and on whom punishment has little or no deterrent effect.Gattie, W. H., Holt-Hughes, T. H., "Note on the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913", The Law Quarterly Review 30 (1914) 202 A person deemed to be an idiot or imbecile might be placed in an institution or under guardianship if the parent or guardian so petitioned, as could a person of any of the four categories under 21 years, as could a person of any category who had been abandoned, neglected, guilty of a crime, in a state institution, habitually drunk, or unable to be schooled.
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Amongst other districts fixed on by government for raising Fencible corps at the commencement of the French Revolutionary Wars, that of "Lord Reay's country" (as that region was then called), the residence of the Clan Mackay, was selected. The chief of that clan, the then Hugh, Lord Reay, being, from mental imbecility, incapable of acting, Hugh Mackay Bailie of Rosehall, was appointed colonel, and the late George Mackay of Bighouse, lieutenant-colonel of the Reay Fencibles ordered to be raised. Notwithstanding the unfortunate state of their chief the clan came readily forward, and in a few weeks a body of 800 Highlanders, of whom 700 had the word Mac prefixed to their names, was assembled. In March 1795 the regiment was embodied by Sir Hector Munro at Fort George, whence it immediately proceeded to Ireland, where it soon acquired the confidence of Generals Lake and Nugent.
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913, § 4305, "Carnal knowledge of woman by administering drugs, &c.;" > "Any person who has carnal knowledge of any female above ten years of age, > without her consent, by administering to her any drug, or other substance, > which produces such stupor, imbecility of mind, or weakness of body, as to > prevent effectual resistance, must _,_ on conviction, be punished, at the > discretion of the jury, either by death, or by imprisonment in the > penitentiary for life, or by hard labor for the county for life." The 1876 Code of Alabama also made no substantive changes to the section prohibiting "Carnal knowledge of female under ten years of age," only adding two commas (on either side of "on conviction"):1876 Code of Alabama, Part 5 "Of Crimes and Their Punishment; Proceedings in Criminal Cases," Tit. I "Of Public Offenses; Definition and Punishment of," Ch. 9 "Offenses Against the Person," p.
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" Similarly, arguing that Har represents Christianity and Heva is an Eve-figure, Damon believes the poem illustrates that "by the end of the Age of Reason, official religion had sunk into the imbecility of childhood." David V. Erdman looks at the poem from a political perspective, reading it in the light of the commencement of the French Revolution in July 1789, with the Storming of the Bastille. He believes the poem deals both with pre-revolutionary France and "unrevolutionary" England, where people were more concerned with the recently revealed madness of George III than with righting the wrongs of society, as Blake saw them; "in France the people in motion were compelling the King to relax his grasp on the spectre. In England, the royal grasp had suddenly failed but there seemed nothing for the people to do but wait and see [...] when the King's recovery was celebrated, a bit prematurely, in March 1789, "happiness" was again official.
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" Conrad's alienation from partisan politics went together with an abiding sense of the thinking man's burden imposed by his personality, as described in an 1894 letter of Conrad's to a relative-by-marriage and fellow author, Marguerite Poradowska (née Gachet, and cousin of Vincent van Gogh's physician, Paul Gachet) of Brussels: Conrad wrote H.G. Wells that the latter's 1901 book, Anticipations, "seems to presuppose... a sort of select circle to which you address yourself, leaving the rest of the world outside the pale. [In addition,] you do not take sufficient account of human imbecility which is cunning and perfidious."Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, H.G. Wells: a Biography, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1973, p. 167.In a second edition of Anticipations (1902), Wells included a note at the end of chapter 1 acknowledging a suggestion regarding "the possibility (which my friend Mr. Joseph Conrad has suggested to me) of sliding cars along practically frictionless rails.
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Ultimately, the concept of moral insanity did not change the orthodox legal defense of insanity which required the clear presence of delusion, as embodied in the M'Naghten rules in 1842 which are still referenced today. Nevertheless, modern conceptions of responsibility have been forged in part through the medical and legal exchanges over moral insanity, including anticipations of the diagnosis in the writings of Benjamin Rush, in the context of concepts of free will associated with religious Common Sense Realism.Blumental, S.L. The Mind of a Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law Law and History Review, 2008 Moral insanity came to be increasingly seen as a form of genetically-inherited degeneracy, and toward the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century converged with ideas of moral imbecility and deficiency, as well as with an anti-vice moral hygiene movement.Rimke, H. & Hunt, A From sinners to degenerates: the medicalization of morality in the 19th century History of the Human Sciences February 2002 vol.
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