sex-inertia

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History looked doubtful when asked whether race-inertia had ever been overcome without destroying the race in order to reconstruct it; but surely sex-inertia had never been overcome at all.

Vis Inertiae (1903) 1918
But remove the cause of sex-inertia and there is likely to be the stir and awakening of spring after a long monotonous winter of hard frost and blanketing snow.

The Sisters-In-Law Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902