You talk of civilising; there's no such way of civilising the masses of the people as by fixed military service.

你说是文明;没有比固定兵役更能使人民群众文明法了。

Again with politics, statesmen are always praising the greatness of Empire, and preaching the moral duty of civilising the savage.

再说政治，政治家总是歌颂帝国伟大，宣扬文明野蛮人道德义务。

'Yet it reigned in Persia with the magi, it endowed India with wonderful traditions, it civilised Greece to the sounds of Orpheus's lyre'.

“然而与贤士一起治了波斯，赋予了印度美妙，使希腊在奥菲斯七弦琴之声中文明”。

However, this confirmed my first opinion, that a people who could so far civilise brute animals, must needs excel in wisdom all the nations of the world.

然而，这证实了我最初看法，认为一个能够如此文明野兽民族，必定在智慧上超越世界上所有国家。