Estabrook's data suggested that the family had actually shown fewer problems over time, but he pronounced that the Jukes family were " unredeemed " and suffering from just as much " feeblemindedness, indolence, licentiousness and dishonesty " as they had been in the past.
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The only local critic who might conceivably have objected, H . L . Mencken, the city's grand curmudgeon journalist, is long dead and gone, along with his chance to coin some fresh umbrage : " purple booboisie, " perhaps, at the joining of two of his least favorite things, the callowness of the bourgeoisie ( " The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it . " ) and the shallowness of sports fandom ( " a kind of feeblemindedness " ).
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R�hl wrote : " It is now generally recognised that people cannot be classified as " either " hetero-" or " homosexual . . . Instead there were various intermediate stages between these extremes into which Philipp Eulenburg and some of his friends surely fitted . . . Such fine distinctions perished, however in an intellectual climate in which, following the teachings of the Heidelberg psychiatry professor, Emil Kraepelin,'contrary sexual proclivities'were classified along with'idiocy','cretinism', and'congenital feeblemindedness'as a form of'lunacy'".
