Conflicts between nations and international pugnacity generally imply a conception of a State as a homogeneous whole, having the same sort of responsibility that we attach to a person who, hitting us, provokes us to hit back.
The pugnacity recently expended on the slaves is redirected to keeping hostile tribes from capturing them--a difficult matter, because the slaves themselves show a disposition to try a change of mastership.
But the pugnacity is so little controlled by rationalism that the slaves starve, and prove incapable of useful work.
Even with armies the pugnacity must be translated into intellectual and not into physical effort.
Does the history of Germany, during the last half-century, show the blind instinctive pugnacity which is supposed to be so overpowering an element in international relationship as to outweigh all question of material interest?
It is not strange, then, that journals of redoubtable pugnacity were popular, or that editors favored writers who were likely to excel in the gladiatorial style.
There is Biercean pugnacity in these words; the author flings down the gauntlet with a confident gesture.
Stolzmann further suggests that the excessive pugnacity of male birds at the breeding season may lead to the destruction of some individuals, and so prove of advantage to the species.
Lest it be thought the idea that excessive courage and pugnacity are harmful is mere fancy, let us quote from the account of the nesting habits of the White-rumped Swallow (Tachycineta leucorrhoa) given by Mr W.
Dewar has said: In the struggle for existence, "An ounce of good solid pugnacity is worth many pounds of protective colouration.
An ounce of good solid pugnacity is a more effective weapon in the struggle for existence than many pounds of protective colouration.
Footnote 133: For activity andpugnacity of humming-birds, see Tropical Nature, pp.
I suppose it's wrong, but a state of pugnacityseems to me the greatest bliss which we can reach here on earth.
The size of the cortex varies directly with the sexuality and the pugnacity of the animal.
Of the visible evidences, pugnacity and the fighting habit are valuable materials, because they are visible.
Certain birds show pugnacity in connection with the robber instinct, as: Bald Eagle, which robs the Osprey; Skua and Jaeger, which rob gulls.
Strict orthodoxy takes the place among us which Pharisaism held in Paul's mind before he was a Christian, and it is easier to prove our zeal by pugnacity against heretics, than by fervour of devotion.
It sometimes happens that a usually quiet-tempered ram will suddenly exhibit some pugnacity when one is salting or feeding the flock.
Moreover, and what was still more distressing, he was not only without a case at the moment, but without the prospect of one; for he had exhausted all the pugnacity that was in his vicinity.
There was nothing like the pugnacity of the Kiddy in these years of Prothero's disaster.
The man had a fine constitution (he gave him credit for that); he had pluck; there was resistance, pugnacity in every nerve.
As I have repeatedly stated, pugnacity is a more valuable asset than protective colouration in the struggle for existence.
Many species of birds betray the presence of their nests by displaying unusual pugnacity at the breeding season.
All his pugnacity was engaged in what seemed to be a profitless struggle with the speech of the grammar.
His mother looked at him and she saw pugnacity written all over him.
Character required in the Guardians--Mildness at home with pugnacityagainst enemies 23 Peculiar education necessary, musical as well as gymnastical 23 Musical education, by fictions as well as by truth.
Character required in the Guardians--Mildness at home with pugnacity against enemies.
Perhaps a diminution of pugnacity and of the means to gratify this instinct would not be a misfortune.
But, though pugnacity and acquisitiveness have been the real foundation of much miscalled patriotism, better motives are generally mingled with these primitive instincts.
Another cause of perverted patriotism is the inborn pugnacity of the bête humaine.
Strictly speaking, pugnacity belongs among the instincts neither of self-preservation nor of race-preservation, but is a special device for reinforcing both groups.
But war itself, the expression of the war-like character, is the outcome of pugnacity and the love of adventure without which human nature would be decidedly the poorer, and would be comparatively ineffective.
Conscious of my innocence of treason or any other crime against the Government or society, my pugnacity was roused by this summons.
There I stood, a whipped man, my pugnacity all gone, and the martyr's crown away out of my reach.
I am not, of course, disputing the pugnacity of birds during the breeding season and often at other times.
Much has been said as to the pugnacity of birds, but I think that a large amount of timidity often mingles with this pugnacity, even in the most pugnacious kinds.
And no doubt it is from having noticed this that legislators try to excite in states ambition and emulation among their townsmen, and stir up and increase their courage and pugnacity against enemies by the sound of trumpets and flutes.
