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

I am collecting facts from our daily papers illustrating the Barbarism of Matrimony.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah

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

Barbarism and the Cholera invading Europe in 1831.

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