The alien is revealed to be merely a lost, primitive version of the familiar, and imperial power flows less from civilizing the savage than from reviving the inner barbarian.
Let us say that a subset of a topological space is civilized if it is closed, has only finitely many components, and each of its components is path-connected.
Because of its antiquity, its unpredictability and its global presence, the disease found a prominent place in the colonial civilizing mission.
Given this human/animal boundary, it was only a guided rational approach that could make the boy fully civilized and therefore fully human.
The great healing effect of publicity is that by revealing men's motives it civilizes them.
Because they think that it is for people that are not civilized.
The professional architects of the time were also enthusiastic about taking part in this process as civilizing agents.
The myth portrayed the transformation of a violent abduction into the civilized social alliance sanctioned by the marriage bond.
