...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies." A little later he speaks of " this degrading thirst for outrageous stimulation." Now the time in which...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of the;r occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence...

...force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and, unfitting it for all voluntary exertion, to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident. ... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have...

...Wordsworth, writing his Preface to Lyrical Ballads in the year 1800, might have been speaking of our own day. causes are the great national events which are daily...increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the unifnrniity t>f t-hpjr j)ccupations produces a craving for extraordinary jocident. ... To this tendency...

...discriminating powers of the mind," bringing about "a state of almost savage stupor," Wordsworth writes: The most effective of these causes are the great national...rapid communication of intelligence hourly gratifies. "The rapid communication of intelligence hourly"; this is Wordsworth's resonant equivalent for "journalism."...

...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...and the increasing accumulation of men in cities" (Prose Works, 128). "I am past thirty, and three parts iced over — and my pen, it seems to me is...

...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving...

...disctiminating powers of the mind, and unfitting n for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state ot almost savage torpor. The most effective of these...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasmg accumulation ol men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving...

...sensationalism as he perceives it, and he even offers a thumbnail sociology to explain what has gone wrong: "the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where...occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident" has proved responsible, he says, for the general loss of discrimination. The invaluable works of our...

...combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The...national events which are daily taking place, and the encreasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving...