Literary usage of Passivists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Eastern Europe by Ralph Butler (1919)
"the passivists and the German Government—an odd agent for the latter to select.
Probably he hoped to secure such an allotment of seats on the Council that ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"... social altruism, individualism, egoism, and distinguishes between organists
and mechanists, pessimists and optimists, passivists and activists, ..."
3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"... general repudiation of revolt against the Romans—a repudiation which the
authorities, who were passivists, voiced for more or less prudential reasons. ..."
4. More that Must be Told by Philip Gibbs (1921)
"... their view is the full and perfect vision, between the activists and the
passivists, the vitalists and the mechanists, the egotists and the altruists. ..."
5. More that Must be Told by Philip Gibbs (1921)
"... their view is the full and perfect vision, between the activists and the
passivists, the vitalists and the mechanists, the egotists and the altruists. ..."
6. Psychology of the Religious Life by George Malcolm Stratton (1911)
"With the passivists this transfer of the sense of reality away from the seen,
and forward to the unseen, has been carried to the uttermost. ..."
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