sciolism

• “The marvelous restoration of its prosperity by the genius of Colbert, the ruin caused by the malign sciolism of Law, are familiar to all students of political economy.”

  Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII

• “But I've no doubt whatever, myself, that a great deal of this ancient lore, which we have been accustomed to regard as so much sciolism, not to say pure nonsense, had a germ of truth in it, and that truth I believe we are gradually beginning to re-discover.”

  Austin and His Friends

• “And yet, even worse than this languorous inanition is the active policy of those who despise everything contemporary or native, and substitute sciolism for catholicity, contempt for analysis.”

  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

• “Religion was mostly superstition, science for the most part sciolism, popular education merely a means of forcing the stupid and repressing the bright, so that all the youth of the rising generation might conform to the same dull, dead level of democratic mediocrity.”

  Baxter's Procrustes

• “It seemed to stand out in such sharp contrast with our latter-day sciolism and half-believed creeds, and to be flung into higher relief by the dark shadow of John Maltravers's ruined life.”

  The Lost Stradivarius

• “Judge of what is true editorial sciolism when I tell you that Riemann -- who evidently believes in a rigid melodic structure -- has inserted an”

  Chopin : the Man and His Music

• “All the peculiarities which ignorance or sciolism used to ridicule or reproach in the”

  The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

• “But the way in which these things are merged in and spoilt by a torrent of silliness, sciolism, and sheer nonsense is, even after one has known the book for forty years and more, still astounding.”

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century

• “They might be called lyrics of culture, since they regard the perfection of the individual, -- the equipoise of heart and head, steadfast seriousness as opposed to showy sciolism, the preservation of hope and faith, -- as a noble object of emotion.”

  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller

• “And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

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