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Hence the term Destructiveness has been very properly applied to this organ by Spurzheim.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2 1856
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Destructiveness is the outcome of the unlived life.’
Hearts and Minds 2006
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Destructiveness is the outcome of the unlived life.’
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Let me head off another objection — that Neo-Darwinism leads to Moral-Religious Destructiveness.
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Destructiveness come from unbridled license, which consumes itself in its own revolt and thus is active evil.
enowning enowning 2007
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Destructiveness come from unbridled license, which consumes itself in its own revolt and thus is active evil.
Archive 2007-10-01 enowning 2007
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We will suppose the case of a man of the Bilious Temperament, dark complexion, hair and eyes; Moderate Caution; small Vitativeness, Hope and Self-esteem; large Destructiveness and Acquisitiveness.
How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor
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Some kinds of contrariety or incongruity excite one class of feelings, other kinds altogether different feelings; and consequently, according to the faculty or combination of faculties affected, the kinds of mirth and laughter are varied from the Sardonic grin of Destructiveness to the lover's smile.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various
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An extra convolution, No. 9, _Destructiveness_, according to the list beneath, which was not to be seen in the plate, itself a copy of Nature, was very liberally supplied by the artist, to meet the wants of the catalogue of
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various
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Destructiveness was similar in character throughout all the vessels and involved only important parts of the propulsive mechanism or other operating machinery.
Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914
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