Indeed it may even be said that he could only rise out of animalism when he became social, and had acquired the use of language, which is at the same time a consequence and a potent factor of sociability.
However, man could not pass at once from animalism to humanity; from brutal strife between man and man to the collective strife of all mankind, united in one brotherhood of mutual aid against external nature.
Florentine animalism has at this time, also, enough to say for itself.
He represents, indeed, the revolt of German truth against Italian lies; but he represents also the revolt of German animalism against Hebrew imagination.
Better impulses, better desires, were struggling in their degraded minds; but cruelty was deeply rooted within them, the vague shame and misgiving his words had roused was not so strong as the dark animalism of their natures.
Julian tried to hug and soothe himself in the unworthy remembrance of Cuckoo's monotonous life and piteous deeds, to reinstate himself in contented animalism by thoughts of the animalism of this priestess!
The animalism that is so generally present in a boy physically strong took possession of him, and would not tolerate any divided allegiance.
The motive which sustains the plot, is illicit love; but in its presentation there is no romance, nothing to cloak the animalism of an unchecked instinct.
Since there is no devil in the tiger and the ox, the animalism of man cannot be his devil.
But man made his animalism a devil when he began to have ideals.
But when that same animalism hides under a cloak of poetry and aesthetic feeling and demands our worship--then we are swallowed up by it completely, and worship animalism, no longer distinguishing good from evil.
This work is the glorification of animalism and indirectly a defamation of woman.
The old hells have burnt out, but the animalism of man couches all the more freely on his path, having broken every chain of fear.
The Egyptians rightly regarded the symbol of sexual desire, on whose healthy exercise the perpetuation of life depended, as a very different kind of animalism from that symbolised in the pig's love of refuse and garbage.
Animalism disguised as a religion must render the human religion, able to raise passions into divine attributes of a perfect manhood, impossible so long as it continues.
All man needs is a true mirror in which his own animalism may see itself.
The next attempt of the Devil, as agent of the Elohistic creation, to ruin the race of man, introduces us to another form of animalism which has had a large expression in Devil-lore.
If the former were weaknesses which might overthrow kingdoms, the latter was a species of animalism which could devastate the home and society.
The lust of animalism and the determination to possess the woman he once desired, were the two channels, swept into which, he became ungovernable.
The lust of this spirit of animalism was uppermost.
It is foolish, therefore, to say that man, in that lower animalismof his nature, is alone in the supposed God-creation of his likeness to the divinity.
How could a man of to-day be compared to the biped animal of prehistoric times, though bearing visibly the traces of the animalism from which he had lately emerged?
Some might risk the odd paradox that with more animalism he would have been the nobler man.
Cellini's statues have no thought; their blank animalism corresponds to the condition of their maker's soul.
Yet there is no coarseness oranimalism properly so called in his style.
But if it leads him to forsake the place of worship, to forget God, to fling to the winds the faith of his boyhood, and to settle down to a life of animalism and materialism, he has been destroyed by means of his best affections.
To fill the thoughts and wishes of men with something better worth while than the joys of animalism is the radical remedy for these degradations.
It is plain to see whereunto the decay of public decency and the revival of the animalism of pagan art and manners will grow, if it be not checked by a deepened Christian faith and feeling.
I am the Lord thy God," the great idol says, "that brought thee up out of animalism and savagery, and me only shalt thou serve!
Animalism merely as a scientific fact serves naught to the poet, unless he can show also what is as undeniable as the bare fact--its poetry, its coarseness, and its mystery go together.
But no poet had a finer appreciation of the essential poetry of animalism than he, and much of his cynicism, after all, is by way of protest against the same narrow morality at which Whitman girds.
It led the cosmic movement until man appeared; and now it has taken man in hand, with all the vestiges of animalism clinging to him, and it will never leave him as he rises toward the perfection and glory of God.
By what path does man move from the bondage of his will, and the limitation of his animalism toward the glorious liberty of the children of God, and toward the fullness of his possible being?
The earth and animalism will never cease to make appeal to our senses, while at the same time voices from above will call from their heights to our spirits.
The tendency to revert to animalism has been vividly depicted by the poets, and the clamorous and insistent nature of the passions portrayed by the artists.
Between God calling from above and animalism from below the poor soul has a hard time of it.
This violent and directionless reaction between animalism and spiritual truth would go on in him till he tore himself in two between the opposite directions, and disappeared meaninglessly out of life.
She hated him for the seasoned, semi-paternal animalism with which he regarded her, but she admired his weight of strength.
I still went among them in safety, because no jolt in the downward glide had released the increasing charge of explosive animalism that ousted the human day by day.
But that transitory gleam of the true animalism of these monsters was enough.
All the time since I had heard his name, I had been trying to link in my mind in some way the grotesque animalism of the islanders with his abominations; and now I thought I saw it all.
