This might tend to barbarize, demoralize, and exasperate the whole mass and produce most deplorable consequences. |
Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. |
If the most effectual method of degrading woman be to barbarize man, the certain means of dignifying her is to christianize him. |