The tragedy of Augustine, and (according to Freeman) the West, was his intellectual decline.

Upper motor neurone disturbance rather than intellectual decline was a prominent feature, and magnetic resonance imaging disclosed abnormalities in the subcortical white matter.

Advance orders for the book, a lamentation of the intellectual decline at American universities, were so low that the publisher only printed 10,000 copies.

"If I was painting about social issues or industrial decline or something more intellectual, then it would be regarded as interesting," he said.

He recently had a 52-year-old patient who expressed concern before surgery about intellectual decline.

He belonged to a period of intellectual decline when men took naturally to eclecticism.

His book, published in 1987, lamented what he asserted was the intellectual decline of American universities.

It went into a moral and intellectual decline in the last half century.

Much of his writings examine what he saw as the moral and intellectual decline of modern Greeks as contrasted with their ancestors.

The sacking of Gao marked the effective end of the Songhai as a regional power and its economic and intellectual decline.