barbarism

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Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant creature of the Enlightenment, once wrote, "Barbarism has . . . been receding before the steady step of amelioration; and will in time, I trust, disappear from the earth."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Barbarism with a Human Face, for example, Bernard-Henri Levy demanded that French radicals confront the idea that Marxism was inherently corrupt.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the three periods of Barbarism the ideal of conquest was extended to the beasts of the field, the vegetable world, and the mineral contents of the earth’s crust.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

His Clinches, false Wit, and descending beneath himself, seem to be a Deference paid to reigning Barbarism.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.

He also wrote, many years ago, a very interesting work, called "Civilization and Barbarism," giving an account of the reigns of some of those tyrants who so long arrested the great career of the Republic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various