Is savagism a degenerate condition of human nature?. From Wordnik.com. [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference
But this does not relegate these civilized nations to savagism. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
< 29 > Nothing is plainer than that our present civilization has been developed from barbarism, as that was from savagism. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The French now threw off all political form, and all diplomatic decorum, and exhibited the whole savagism of republicanism. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Turanian Family, which probably advanced man from savagism into barbarism, seems to have at that stage exhausted its energies. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Our soldier's Dress, very appropriately, retains all the elements of savagism -- high colors, sharp contrasts, profuseness of ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
The idea of property, which scarcely had an existence during that period of savagism, had grown stronger with every advance in culture. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
The desire for wealth and property which is such a controlling power to-day was one of the most efficient agents in advancing man from savagism to civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
This, however, is not taken as proving the identity of race, but as proving that in this morning-time of man's existence he had nowhere advanced beyond a low state of savagism. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
It originated in the morning of time, and so completely answered all the demands of primitive society that it advanced man from savagism, through barbarism, and sufficed to enable him to make a beginning in civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Roman, and Germanic tribes in the act of substituting the modern system of government for the tribal state, under which they had passed from savagism into and through the various stages of barbarism, and entered the confines of civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
In the arts of subsistence, government, language, and development of religious ideas the advancement they had been able to make from a condition of savagism to that in which the Mound Builders evidently lived, or the Aztecs in Mexico, represents a progression far greater than from thence to civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Yes! this great antagonist was slavery -- an institution long thrown out of European life; a relic of the lowest barbarism and savagism, the very antipodes of freedom, and flourishing best only in the rudest forms of society; but now rearing its hideous visage in the midst of principles, forms, and institutions the most free and advanced of any that the world has ever witnessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But strictly, the moral is the principal and controlling view of the subject, and that which has made and will continually constitute the criterion of action from which the expediency is deduced, and the anomaly of slavery in our Republic understood, the paradox of a slaveholding democracy explained, and the institution of slavery justified with human equality, by justly discriminating between barbarism and humanity, civilization and savagism, justice and injustice, right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
Power applied to spoliation forms the groundwork of human savagism. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader] Reference
Page 255 and children, we could perhaps appreciate the savagism of that style of warfare. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference
A state of pure savagism, or rather of mere animalism, was the primitive condition of man. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
And, it was only a generation ago that the vast majority of Chinese people suffered from the savagism of abject poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference
I have seen a good deal of ferocity and savagism, and it was not at all confined to people acknowledged to be barbarians. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier] Reference
We must now bid farewell to that land of savagism, so large a portion of which we have seen opened out to the view of the civilised world by the gallant and enterprising men whose footsteps we have traced. From Wordnik.com. [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference
Energetic beauty is a necessity to the man who is under the indulgent sway of taste, for in his state of refinement he is only too much disposed to make light of the strength that he retained in his state of rude savagism. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
Thus the spirit of the time is seen to waver between perversions and savagism, between what is unnatural and mere nature, between superstition and moral unbelief, and it is often nothing but the equilibrium of evils that sets bounds to it. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
When we consider the struggles of the race from savagism to civilization, all the wonderful achievements, discoveries and inventions of man, we must feel more like bowing down to him as an incarnation of his Creator than deploring his follies like "a poor worm of the dust.". From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
The logical tendency towards barbarism and savagism of any system of human slavery -- the forcible robbery of a fellow-being of his dearest birthright, liberty -- is most conspicuously illustrated by your narrative; and the senseless boast of the abettors of the slave system, who rebelled against law and justice in 1861, that it promoted. From Wordnik.com. [Tupelo] Reference
A great mass of land has disappeared beneath the waves of the Pacific, why may we not suppose that, if this sunken land was not the original home of man, it was at a very early time inhabited by him; that here he passed through his experience in savagism?. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
437; the parts of the world self-formed, 437, 438; plants, animals, and man are spontaneously generated, 438; a state of savagism the primitive condition of man, 439; his Atheism, 441; his Psychology, 442-444; the soul material and mortal, 445, 446. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
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