apathy

[In Dan. apathi; Ger. & Fr. apathie; Port. & Lat. apathia; Ital. apatia, from Gr. ἀπάθεια ( apatheia ) = want of pa ion or feeling; ἀπαθής ( apathes ) = without suffering: a, priv., and πάθος ( pathos ) = anything that befalls one; also suffering, feeling, pa ion; παθεῖν ( pathein ), 2 aor. inf in. of πάσχω ( paschō ) = to suffer.] Want of feeling, deadne of the emotions, a calm and unruffled temper, produced, not by the dominancy of conscience or an iron will over violent emotions, but by the natural feeblene of the latter. Unruffled tranquillity of mind produced in such a way is not a virtue, but a defect. "Of good and evil much they argued then Of happine and final misery. Pa ion and apathy , and glory and shame." Milton: P. L., ii. 564. "The helple apathy of Asiatics,"- Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiv. Apathy may be produced in any mind temporarily by despair. "Mon mouth had pa ed from pusillanimous fear to the apathy of despair."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng., ch. v. ǎp-a-tīte, s . [From Gr. ἀπατάω ( apataō ) = to deceive, and suff. -ite . So called because it has often been mistaken for other minerals.] An important mineral cla ed by Dana as the type of the "Apatite" group of his Anhydrous "Phosphates, Arsenates, Antimonates." The crystals are hexagonal and often hemihedral. The hardne is 5, or le frequently 4-5; the sp. gr. 292 to 3.25; the lustre vitreous; the streak white; the colour sea-green, violet, blue, white, gray, various reds, or brown. Apatite may be transparent, translucent, or opaque. Composition: Phosphate of lime, 91-13 to 92-31; chloride of calcium, 15 or le to 4.28; and fluoride of calcium, 4.59 to 7-69. It occurs chiefly in metamorphic crystalline rocks. It is found widely in the United States, and extensively in the province of Quebec, Canada. Dana divides it in to Var. 1. Ordinary: (a) Asparagus Stone, with which is a ociated Moroxite, (6) Lasurapatite, (c) Franco lite; 2. Fibrous Concretionary, Stalactitic, specially Phosphorite; 3. Earthy Apatite, specially Osteolite 4. Fluor-apatite; 5. Chlor-apatite. In addition to these there is Pseudo-apatite. Akin to Apatite are (A.) Phosphatic Nodules, generally called from their origin Coprolites: (B.) Staff elite of Stein; (C.) Guano; (D.) Epiphosphorite; (Ε.) Talc-apatite; (F.) Hydro-apatite. (See these words.) (Dana: Min., 5th ed., 530-5.)