And, as there is no mean state in morals, so the extremes are necessarily finished and perfect types of virtue and Reprobacy.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Amongst these poor wanderers there is none of the reckless personal negligence and filth of hopeless Reprobacy; neither is there a shadow of the professional ostentation of poverty amongst them.
"Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine"
Edwin Waugh