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CiuiAzation and Barbarism. m.-What is ci- vilization? Noah Webster says it is the estate of being civilized-the state of being refined in manners" What then is Refnemens? GA nice observance of the civilities of social life," says he; and thus the seeker of.the de- fnition vibrates like the pendulum of clock between the two words, learning only that civilization is refinement, and that refine ment is civilization.

 Let us be permitted to define little. G. vihzed people are those whose manners and customs are like our own, in whatever coun- try we may happen to be born-and Bar6a- rfans are those whose manners and cus- toms are different from our own. Here, for instance, civilized man is one who wears brooches, boots, shirt, coat and hat; who