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

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, by George Santayana, Scribners, 1900, contains an interesting presentation of Browning's work in a chapter entitled "The Poetry of Barbarism."

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

These panels represent the "Triumph of Civilization over Barbarism," and are now in the Museum at Tervueren.

From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement

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)