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- Becoming rigid as if ossifying; ossifying.
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nathanscripps commented on the word ossifiant
Modern political economy stands on a precisely similar basis. Assuming, not that the human being has no skeleton, but that it is all skeleton, it founds an ossifiant theory of progress on this negation of a soul; and having shown the utmost that may be made of bones, and constructed a number of interesting geometrical figures with death's-heads and humeri, successfully proves the inconvenience of the reappearance of a soul among these corpuscular structures. I do not deny the truth of this theory: I simply deny its applicabilitv to the present phase of the world.
Whither tilth?
John Ruskin
The Roots of Honour
Unto This Last
December 8, 2020