What is "civilising"

Usage examples of "civilising".

He must lend himself to the development of aggregatory ideas that favour the civilising process, and he must do his best to promote the disintegration of aggregations and the effacement of aggregatory ideas, that keep men narrow and unreasonably prejudiced one against another.

In certain respects the dynasty remained faithful to ancient native religious practices but as rulers of a newly unified state, fighting China for paramountcy in Central Asia, they may have tried to use the foreign religion as a unifying political and civilising instrument.

No lesson seems ever to be drawn from history of the fluctuating incidence of the civilising process first upon this race and then upon that.

The depopulation of the Congo Free State by the Belgians, the horrible massacres of Chinese by European soldiery during the Pekin expedition, are condoned as a painful but necessary part of the civilising process of the world.

I beg you to receive it as the loving recreation of one who sympathises with the people of who you come, and honours their virtues, and who has no fear for the unity, and no doubt as to the splendid future, of the nation, whose fibre is got of the two great civilising races of Europe.