One may ask how, if man is born "evil" (by which Xunzi really meant uncivilized), it is possible for him to create the higher values of civilization.
Motivated, in part, by a desire to purge local populations of allegedly barbaric, uncivilized customs and mores, colonizers also knew that the best way to mitigate resistance by the colonized was to eradicate as far as possible all traces of the former way of life.
Strident settler demands for urban segregation classified even wealthy Indian merchants as "uncivilized natives".
It was established that traditional laws of sovereignty that allow any nation to claim for itself uninhabited and uncivilized lands are not viable in space territories and that countries cannot extend the boundaries of their dominion indefinitely into the space regions above them.
Its inhabitants, a mountain people described by Greco-Roman authors as warlike and uncivilized, were conquered by the Roman general Publius Servilius Vatia "Isauricus" in a three-year campaign, 76 74 bc.
There the old conflict resumed between the autonomous, uncivilized nomads and the stable, settled Middle Eastern civilization of the Ottomans.
His red skin symbolizes the colour of blood, and he is thus said to be "Muntu wa Malwa," a physical and moral monstrosity who brings suffering and terror into the world an uncivilized man who lives in an incestuous relationship with his own sisters.
In any case, these mysteries justify Eric Temple Bell's characterization of number theory as "the last great uncivilized continent of mathematics".
One of the most important legends associated with Gog and Magog was that of Alexander's Gate, said to have been built by Alexander the Great to imprison these uncivilized and barbaric people until the end of time.
Amrouche's first novel, Jacinthe noire (1947; "Black Hyacinth"), recounts the story of an "uncivilized" young Tunisian girl who is sent to a French pension for studies.
"We do not love anything that is uncivilized," says one of his documents, "we hate wicked pride and its authors.
