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 and the Cholera invading Europe in 1831.

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

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

But this Was Barbarism, I am wiser now; More civilized.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by