This facility of divorce was a great stigma on the Roman laws, and the degradation of woman was the principal consequence.

Degradation is degradation, all the world over.

"Like most who have arisen to the head of their profession, the modern degradation which mendicity has undergone was often the subject of Andrew's lamentations.

In the same manner, if, either from the influence of the social institutions of a country, or from the operation of natural causes which human power is unable to control, there is a class of men too low, and degraded, and miserable to be reached by the ordinary inducements to daily toil, so certain are they to grow corrupt and depraved, that degradation has become in all languages a term almost synonymous with vice.

The further degradation of the public taste was not then the avowed object of popular magazines.