If he is up to his duties he is a most valuable servant; if he neglects them he is a costly nuisance, not so much from his pay, but because of the hindrance and disorganisation of the whole farm-work which such neglect entails.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
As the bent given to philosophical and literary studies developed the inner life and personal tastes of the individual, the political disorganisation of the age tended to stimulate new modes of thought and life, which had not, in any former generation, been congenial to the Roman mind.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
It was not till a generation after the death of Ennius that the moral corruption and political and social disorganisation-the ultimate results of the great military successes gained under the absolute ascendency of the Senate,-became fully manifest.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar