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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.
--leader (possibly) of the civilizing Forces.
Led by the Southern-born Ulrich Phillips, whose American Negro Slavery (1918) was the standard work in the field for decades, leading academic historians portrayed slavery as a benevolent, paternalistic institution that benefited blacks by civilizing them.
1 on his list of things to do for June 30, 1993, was to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity and recivilizing all Americans."
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.