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If it is true that the Jew just because of his intellectuality is a natural-born idealist, internationalist, doctrinaire, and revolutionist, while the Negro, because of his natural attachment to known familiar objects, places, and persons, is pre-adapted to conservatism and to local and personal loyalties -- if these things are true, we shall eventually have to take account of them practically.

—Introduction to the Science of Sociology

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The state of being intellectual; intellectual endowment; force or power of intellect. A certain plastick or spermatick nature, devoid of all animality or conscious intellectuality. Hallywell, Melampronœa (1681), p. 84. He [Hogg] was protected by a fine non-conducting web of intellectuality and of worldliness from all those influences which startle and waylay the soul of the poet, the lover, the saint, and the hero. E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 57.

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He has manly superiority rather than intellectuality, and so makes good hard hits all the time. — The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Perhaps he never went so far as to petition for an injunction against sex in music; but rigorous intellectuality was his one aim. — Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
That is about the state of it--intellectuality. — What Is Man? and Other Essays
From Squier "Nicaragua A certain atmosphere of dreamy intellectuality is associated with coffee, so that the roasting of it is felt to be a romantic occupation. — Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer
Swift's fault as a thinker was the outcome of his intellectuality--he was too purely intellectual. — The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish

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= French intellectualité = Spanish intelectualidad = Portuguese intellectualidade = Italian intellettualità, from Late Latin intellectualita(t-)s, from intellectualis, intellectual: see intellectual.

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