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This return to something more primitive is an unhealthy atavistic tendency and makes for both racial and individual inferiority.

Deering was very human and fought against an atavistic shrinking from the dark and loneliness.

NORTHWEST!HAROLD BINDLOSS

My spine, too, like Conlon's, registered an authentic shiver of protest and atavistic fear.

War is old--atavistic, a confession of failure, evidence of retrogression.

CLASS OF '29ORRIE LASHIN AND MILO HASTINGS

The probability, in this case, is that the atavistic variety will find its way into a pie, instead of being kept as a pet.

Much might be added regarding atavistic degeneracy, as an explanation of the mental and moral defects of human beings.

From our saddles we could study these outbreaks of atavistic rage with serene enjoyment.

But general considerations lead to the supposition that atavistic forms may easily remain sterile.

Eugene Field gives a new turn to the idea by representing the werewolf curse as a definite atavistic throw-back.

Several cases of troublesome atavistic personality or reincarnation are cured by psychotherapy.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985