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But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes).
Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau . In this 1896 novel, a vivisectionist attempts to transform animals into men until the misshapen creatures revert and kill him, the forces of nature overcoming man's civilizing artifices.
--leader (possibly) of the civilizing Forces.
Socialists talked of Italy’s “civilizing mission” in the Mediterranean, seeking to divert the flow of emigrants (heading increasingly to the Americas) to experimental collectiv e land management in new African colonies in Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
She and three young woman companions brought a civilizing influence to the harshness of the beleaguered settlement.