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But during the last few thousand years he has been the chief factor in the extermination of the great creatures wherever he has established an industrial or agricultural civilization or semicivilization.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

Altogether, the predominant impression made by the sight of the ordinary life—not the strange heathen ceremonies—was that of a reasonably advanced, and still advancing, semicivilization; not savagery at all.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore

The one is the age of savagery; the other is the age of barbarism or semicivilization.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton