Word: inertia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vast effort is being made to overcome the apathy and inertia of the people and the corruption of the government in order to develop the latent capacity of the people for social progress. Schools and museums have been founded, European ideas of justice have been introduced, and the country is flooded with translations of French and European books to the exclusion of native literature...
...neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...
...Define and illustrate Inertia...
...students that it is a religious act to attend prayers. Such attendance is a matter of discipline, not of worship; it is a thing people are afraid to stop, not one they are able to defend. The force that keeps prayers up in their present form is inertia. If laziness has some part in the opposition to prayers, laziness has as great a part in the defence of them. As regards the reason so frequently urged that attendance at chapel serves as a sort of roll-call, and that without such a compulsory service laziness would be encouraged...
...know the depth of malicious depravity of which inanimate things (so called) are capable. So called, I say. For in reality inanimate is an entire misnomer. A log, for example, is generally looked upon as about as lifeless as anything can be, - a very symbol, in fact, of inertia. And, indeed, a log upon land does not often exhibit its real disposition. But once get a log into the water and it will appear in its true character. At first you may not suppose that it has altered in any way, for it may lie perfectly motionless. That, however...