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，必定越世界所有国家。

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大，宣扬文明野蛮人的道德义务。