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Show Civilization. j It's a curious thing, this thing we call I civilization. We think it an affair of epochs and nations. It's really an affair ! of individuals. One brother will be civ- ilized and the other a barbarian. I've j occasionally -met young girls who were so orutauy, insolently, woefully indiner-ent indiner-ent to the arts which make civilization that they ought to have been clothed in the skins of wild beasts and gone about barefoot with clubs over their shoulders. -Yet they were of polite origin, and their parents at least respectful of the things that these young animals despised. Tf. B. Howells, in Silas Lapham. - |