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

I heard only one discourse by that remarkable combination of preacher, poet, patriot and philosopher, Dr. Horace Bushnell, of Hartford,—his discourse on "Barbarism the Chief Danger," delivered before the "Home Missionary Society."

From Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography by Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard

Barbarism, it has given the defendant a new trial.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

And this interest is deepened when we observe the benefits which Barbarism usually derives from its own defeats.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 435 Volume 17, New Series, May 1, 1852 by Chambers, Robert