inadequateness
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New ideas and new 'experiments in living' would not arise, if there were not a certain inadequateness in existing ideas and ways of living.
From On Compromise by John Morley
It is well—as no one would be more likely to contend than myself, who have attempted the task—to demonstrate the contradictions, the superficiality, the inadequateness, of the teaching of Rousseau, Voltaire, or Diderot.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century by John Morley
The acquiescence for so many centuries in the power of the great directing organisation of Western Europe, notwithstanding its intellectual inadequateness, was the decisive expression of that rejection.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
It does not apply to a will which is infected with inadequateness of self expression.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
One point, however, should be observed in any inquiry into the reasons for the inadequateness of these ages' feeling for nature; that many latent sympathies may never have found a voice.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
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