barbarism

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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

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

Barbarism means the worship of Nature; and in recent poetry, science, and philosophy there has been too much of the worship of Nature.

From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Barbarism is not at our frontiers, but at our doors.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

Barbarism and the Cholera invading Europe in 1831.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber