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Take my advice, Eugénie I know you want to play Providence to that young fellow you think you'll civilise him, and that kind of thing; but I warn you he hasn't got breeding enough to stand it. Eugénie drew a long breath. 'Well, don't scold me, papa if I try I must' her voice escaped her, and she began again, firmly 'I must have something to fill up. 'Fill up what?
The quiet gods, without effort of their own, have grown holier and purer by the agitations and toil which civilise their worshippers. In other words, the same influences which elevate and widen our sense of human duty give corresponding height and nobleness to our ideas of the divine character. The history of the civilisation of the earth is the history of the civilisation of Olympus also.
It is well that from time to time we should ask ourselves what compulsory education has done for the people of England. How much it has done to civilise and humanise the masses is beginning to be known to all who are interested in social progress, and I for one am ready to second any vote of thanks that may be proposed to it for this invaluable service.
He had no deep faith that he could quite civilise them; he knew that their conversion was only on the surface, and he fell back on his personal influence with them. By this he could check even the excesses of the worst man in the tribe, his old enemy, Silver Tassel of the bad heart, who yet was ready always to give a tooth for a tooth, and accepted the fact that he owed Oshondonto his life.
'It is a pity they don't come and try to civilise us, then, said Rowland. 'We should be very glad of their help. 'I will go if mamma will let me, said Miss Nugent. Lady Mary smiled somewhat superciliously, and observed that she did not think she would be of much use. 'All who have a desire to do good will make a path of usefulness, Lady Mary, I think, said Rowland.
The Javans themselves explain it differently, and maintain that the souls of Europeans pass, after death, into the bodies of tigers a bitter satire upon those whose mission it was to civilise and improve, and who, but too often, have preferred to persecute and deprave.
They had been thereby stimulated to civilise themselves and encouraged also to believe themselves civilised somewhat prematurely, when they had become heirs merely to the titles and trappings of civilisation. The process of finding their own art and polity, begun under foreign guidance, was bound on the whole to diverge more and more from its Latin model.
"Oh, but then, my dear Mark, we may do a great deal of good here, I am sure," exclaimed Eva, interrupting me. "We may civilise these fierce savages we may teach them Christianity we may show them how much happier they may be by living peaceably, than by going to war, and cutting off each other's heads." "Ah, Eva, that indeed would be a noble occupation," I answered, enthusiastically.
And then you, on your side, it seemed to me, would do something to reclaim the poor child from her wild ways; you would civilise her, and, between us, we should turn her into a young lady, for whom we should, by-and-by, find a suitable husband. It seemed such a perfect scheme. And then how was I to guess that old philosophising Jeanbernat would never stir an inch from his lettuce-beds? Well! well!
If in the life of the kings they seek for examples in the past, they remember the Austrian Caesars, but it is complete oblivion of those first Bourbons who morally killed the Inquisition, expelled the Jesuits, and fostered the material progress of the country; they renounce the memory of those foreign ministers who came to civilise Spain.
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