No savage is fond of work; indeed, labor and savagism are directly antagonistic, for if the savage continues to labor he can but become civilized.
Civilization and savagism will not coalesce, any more than light and darkness; and although it may be necessary that these things come, yet are those by whom they are unrighteously accomplished none the less culpable.
The desire for wealth and property which is such a controlling power to-day was one of the most efficient agents in advancing man from savagism to civilization.
A people possessed of this knowledge have passed from Savagism into the lower status of Barbarism.
The Turanian Family, which probably advanced man from savagism into barbarism, seems to have at that stage exhausted its energies.
If savagism holds human life in light esteem, civilization makes death more hideous than it really is; if savagism is more cruel, it is less sensitive.
This progress is one and universal, though of varying rapidity and extent; there are degrees in savagism and there are degrees in civilization; indeed, though placed in opposition, the one is but a degree of the other.
It sometimes happens that, when the shell of savagism is once fairly broken, a people may overcome a domineering vegetation, and flourish in a climate where by no possibility could their development have originated.
The tamed brute gives up all the benefits of savagism for few of the blessings of civilization; in a cultured state, as compared to a state of wild freedom, its ills are numberless, its advantages infinitesimal.
Civilization has its vices as well as its virtues, savagism has its advantages as well as its demerits.
Nor is it, in the absence of fixed conditions, and amidst the many shades of difference presented by the nations along our western seaboard, an easy matter to tell where even comparative savagism ends and civilization begins.
But agriculture, here as elsewhere, distinguished savagism from civilization, and of the lands of the so-called civilized nations few fertile tracts were found uncultivated at the coming of the Spaniards.
The evils ofsavagism are not so great as we imagine; its pleasures more than we are apt to think.
In many of the Wild Tribes already described some of its characteristics have been observed, and the opposite elements of savagism will not be wanting among what I proceed to describe as the Civilized Nations.
If, on the other hand, a contrary decision be reached on the above questions, the phenomena of American civilization and savagism will be even more easily accounted for.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savagism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animality; barbarism; barbarity; bestiality; brutality; incivility; savagery
