Is there no crime in adopting a system, which keeps down all the noble faculties of their souls, and which positively debases and corrupts their nature?

As these deities became more and more vague and indefinite in the popular mind, and the simple, instinctive appeal of the human soul to a Power it could not see or comprehend was gradually debased into what is now known as Brahminism, and the most repugnant, revolting, cruel, obscene and vicious rites ever practiced by savages or barbarians.

In the midst of the drudgery left for them, the blacks have often heretofore been debased to the status of dependents and paupers.

We do therefore strangely debase ourselves, when we do strongly bend our minds to, or set our affections upon, such toys.

The Floral Games of antiquity were unhappily debased by indecent exhibitions; but they were not entirely devoid of better characteristics.[048] Ovid describing the goddess

I afterwards heard that this miserable creature was pregnant at the time, a circumstance that would have induced at least some regard to leniency in any man not utterly debased.

I should think it was Love had seized me, but Oh! far be it from me to debase myself so farYet, again would she retort, what can I wish in Man that is not to be found in this too lovely Slave?...

For, after he has thus wilfully debased his moral teacher by a low occupation, is there one word that he puts into his mouth, or one sentiment of which he makes him the organ, that has the most remote reference to that occupation?