Its course has been dotted with both violent opposition and with slavish, unquestioning acceptance. It is this ignorance which begets slavish submission and breeds oppression. In the Humanistic movement, the German people was far from being a slavish imitator. But sound academic scepticism protected him from slavish adherence to anyone's party line. Homeric echoes in "Argonautica" are quite deliberate and are not slavish imitation. Initially Baron Dark's dwarfish, slavish aide, later his dwarfish, slavish, skeletal aide. Anton Rubinstein was a slavish follower of those rules in his own works. Huxley was certainly not slavish in his dealings with Darwin. But James was not a slavish follower of Swedenborg. Other lyrical themes included unemployment, inner-city violence, war, and slavish followers of fashion. He argues that "such a sort of "slavish discipline" makes a "slavish temper"" (Locke's emphasis). However, it rejected a slavish use of ring-roads around large towns. However, this was not a slavish copy of pike and shot deployed by the English.