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

你说的是文明;没有比固定兵役更能使人民群众文明化的方法了。

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的伟，文明野蛮人的道德义务。

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

“然而士一起统治了波斯，赋予了印度美妙的传统，使希腊在奥菲斯的七弦琴之声中文明化”。

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，这证实了我的最初看法，认为一个能够如此文明化野兽的民族，必定在智慧上超越世界上所有国家。