Those consigned to the fields were the ones least willing or able to learn, the least energetic, the least honest and trustworthy, the most vicious and brutish.
With a focus on cheap shots, low blows, eye gouges and fish-hooking, this is a technique of all out survival, and something that requires little more than brutish strength and an eye for striking at your opponent's most vulnerable areas.
While we tend to think that the life of foragers were nasty, brutish and short, fossil evidence suggests that they actually had it pretty good: their bones and teeth are healthier than those of agriculturalists.
The brutish, the animal instincts, as is often the case, had been developed earlier than the intellectual qualities, and the force of character, for which he was afterwards remarkable.
Its ethereal elements, the fluttering dresses and deathless devotion, collide with the earthly, brutish and hard (a man's hand breaking a woman's nose, a car's bumper, a gun).
Besides, the affection of some women for their children is, as I have before termed it, frequently very brutish; for it eradicates every spark of humanity.