Assertion: hunger | /r/CapableOf | teach subjection
Facets:
value: to the most obstinate
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the most perverse
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the most brutish
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Other very different but allied views for opposing hunger relief which arose in the late 18th century included Malthus's position that starvation was the only reliable way to check runaway population growth, and Townsend's view that hunger was a useful motivational condition, which taught "decency and civility, obedience and subjection, to the most brutish, the most obstinate, and the most perverse.