civilizaded

Updated: July 9, 2025

Of course, if we have to do with a primitive society on the down-grade and very few that have been "civilizaded," as John Stuart Mill terms it, at the hands of the white man are not on the down-grade its disorganized and debased custom no longer serves a vital function. But a healthy society is bound, in a wholesale way, to have a healthy custom.

R. R. (Robert Ranulph) Marett - Anthropology