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;没有比固定兵役更能使人民群众文化的方法了。

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'.

“然而它与贤士一起统治了波斯，它赋予了度美妙的传统，它使希腊在奥菲斯的七弦琴之声中文化”。

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，这证实了我的第一个观点，即一个能够到目前为止驯化兽的民族，必须在智慧上超过世界上所有的国家。

They civilise their food by cooking it and they also civilised the food in a sense by cutting it into small pieces and making it very elegant and by banishing the brutality of knives to the kitchen.

他们通过烹饪来文化食物， 从某种意义上说， 他们还通过将食物切成小块并使其变得非常优雅以及将刀具的残酷性消除到厨房来文化食物。