barbarism
Noun
Meaning
An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.