"What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of…"

"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but t…"

"Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect."

"Milton obviously invokes vassalage for its suggestion of atavism , back-stepping toward feudal obligation and subjuga…"

"Nairn rejected the view of nationalist movements, purveyed by many thinkers on the liberal and Marxist left, as resid…"

"I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic …"

"I mean that it is, after all, an atavistic feeling... Conventional, I agree, but somehow, deep down, a man has the fe…"

"Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country."

"At best, atavism is a harmless fantasy, not sustainable with any degree of persistent realism under skies crisscrosse…"

"I like best to think of the rare men of an age as suddenly emerging aftershoots of past cultures, and of their persis…"