idiocrasy

“But no, the rebellious insect constantly made them all (for, it should have been said before, this spider seldom uses the same web more than forty-eight hours) after the same manner, and finally I laid it to a depraved idiocrasy, incident to captivity and poor health.”

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866

“True, the full man wisely gathers, culls, absorbs; but if, engaged disproportionately in that, he slights or overlays the precious idiocrasy and special nativity and intention that he is, the man’s self, the main thing, is a failure, however wide his general cultivation.”

Democratic Vistas: Paras. 60–89. Collect

“We venture these deductions from the idiocrasy of the African constitution.”

The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life.

“The best culture will always be that of the manly and courageous instincts, and loving perceptions, and of self-respect -- aiming to form, over this continent, an idiocrasy of universalism, which, true child of”

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose

“True, the full man wisely gathers, culls, absorbs; but if, engaged disproportionately in that, he slights or overlays the precious idiocrasy and special nativity and intention that he is, the man's self, the main thing, is a failure, however wide his general cultivation.”

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose