civilize them in some way so that we can all live in the same, general territory without tearing each other to shreds, which is maybe the default position of both chimpanzee and humanity.

It was opera. It was meant to elevate, meant to civilize.

and create the word civilize, which means to make more culturally advanced.

Christianity didn't civilize the world, it helped colonize it, and I stand by that.

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To empathize is to civilize.

They are part of Eleanor's subtle attempt to civilize her husband and the men around him by putting into verse how a good man should treat his "lady." She and her ladies-in-waiting learn to use poetry to set expectations of how military men should act around women.

The widow Douglas she took me for her son and allowed she would civilize me,