inadequateness
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Its imperfection or inadequateness in size and method I knew, but for the writing part of it, I was fully satisfied.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A very simple observation would have sufficed to make the philosophers, antecedent to Newton, feel the inadequateness of the causes they admitted to operate with such powerful effect.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
New ideas and new 'experiments in living' would not arise, if there were not a certain inadequateness in existing ideas and ways of living.
From On Compromise by John Morley
It is well—as no one would be more likely to contend than myself, who have attempted the task—to demonstrate the contradictions, the superficiality, the inadequateness, of the teaching of Rousseau, Voltaire, or Diderot.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century by John Morley
One point, however, should be observed in any inquiry into the reasons for the inadequateness of these ages' feeling for nature; that many latent sympathies may never have found a voice.
From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by Edward Tompkins McLaughlin
