uncivilizable

Updated: May 12, 2025

"The difference in volume is chiefly confined to the occipital and basal portions," in other words, to the region of the animal propensities; and hence, it is argued, the ferocious, brutal, and uncivilizable character of the wild tribes. Of old they were their enemies, but were now at peace with them, and about the year 1640 became their close confederates.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

Attila, son of Mundzuk, "the scourge of God," resembled his soldiers in his flat, swarthy features, deep-set, fierce, rolling black eyes, and stunted figure. The Huns were uncivilizable savages, who might harry a continent, but neither under Attila, nor Genghis, nor Timour, could ever found an organized kingdom.

- Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 : A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more : than 200 of the most prominent personages in History