Word: unrestraint
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reason, his influence, wherever it is felt, will enter the more deeply; for there is no compulsion in the reception of it. And yet, I ask, is there evidence of a general influence of this kind supplanting the former parental authority? Are there no signs of the laxity of unrestraint, with no stronger guide than the undeveloped character which youth itself supplies unaided...