Civilize

Examples

• Why then isn't there a budget, a large, comprehensive budget, precise and informing, in which provision is made for beginning to civilize Chicago? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If Hull House is unable to civilize Chicago, it at least shows Chicago and America what a civilization might be like. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A little Athens in a vast barbarism--you wonder how much of Chicago Hull House can civilize. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The population of Ecclefigg are a parcel of brutes; we want to civilize them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That subtle fact,--the change of business motives, the demonstration that industry can be conducted as medicine is,--may civilize the whole class conflict. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Italy lay in the centre of what was at that time the improved and civilized part of the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a civilized people for long ages before the fair Aryan Greeks spread southward through Macedonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The savage is merely habituated; the civilized man has habits which transform the environment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are now distributed over nearly all the civilized parts of the world, but in large ponds they readily revert to the color of the original stock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The dance halls, the social centers, the playgrounds, the reception of strangers--these can become instruments for civilizing sexual need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The task of civilizing our impulses by creating fine opportunities for their expression cannot be accomplished through the City Hall alone. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And so no man can gauge the civilizing possibilities of a new set of motives in business. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But once you see the state as a provider of civilizing opportunities, his whole objection collapses. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The underlying tone of it is that society is made by man for man's uses, that reforms are inventions to be applied when by experiment they show their civilizing value. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To their civilizing work among the Indians in South America we shall presently allude. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Emily