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The first trace that we have of a corrupting influence being brought to bear on the Persian religion is connected with the history of the pseudo-Smerdis. According to Herodotus, Cambyses, when he set out on his Egyptian expedition, left a Magus, Patizeithes, at the capital, as comptroller of the royal household.
Then there are all the ordinary goods of life beauty, wealth, strength, rank, and great connections in the State you understand the sort of things these also have a corrupting and distracting effect. I understand; but I should like to know more precisely what you mean about them.
The great majority of these errors are, however, as I have said, extremely unimportant; and nearly all of them seem to have arisen in the ways I have suggested through simple carelessness, and not with any intent of corrupting the text. The translations of the Bible which were made in early days into other languages than our own must be dismissed with the briefest mention.
To a generation whose literature is as pure as the best English, American, and German literature is in the present day, the New Heloïsa might without doubt be corrupting. To the people who read Crébillon and the Pucelle, it was without doubt elevating. The case is just as strong if we turn from books to manners.
Since girls are more cunning, cleverer and more curious than boys, their secret meetings and their conversations, which all the art of their teachers cannot check, are necessarily presided over by a genius a thousand times more informal than that of college boys. What man has ever heard the moral reflections and the corrupting confidences of these young girls?
So for meats, we have some of them so beaten, and made tender, and mortified, yet without all corrupting, as a weak heat of the stomach will turn them into good chilus, as well as a strong heat would meat otherwise prepared.
New words are begotten by new conditions of life; and as American life is far more fertile of new conditions than ours, the tendency towards neologism cannot but be stronger in America than in England. Tucker should disclaim the credit. He next sets forth to show how recent English writers are corrupting the language; and, in doing so, he falls into some curious errors.
How far our industrial era is removed from that of fifty years ago is apparent when we recall that the proposed capitalization of $15,000,000, caused by the merging of the Boston and Worcester and the Western railroads, was widely denounced as "monstrous" and as a corrupting force that would destroy our Republican institutions.
I wasn't doing anything wrong." "Hold your jaw! What was you doing?" "I was only in the cage with the puma." "You was! You have the impudence to tell me that to my face! I'll teach you, you cotton-face! you milk-pudding! to go corrupting the hanimals and making them not worth their salt!" He swung himself out of the cage-door in a fury, but Clare, with his friend in danger, would not run.
The real danger to democracy lies not in the ignorance or want of patriotism of the people, but in the corrupting influence of powerful business organizations upon the representatives of the people...." I have only one quarrel with that philosophy its negativity.
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