The Hellenized Orient imposed itself everywhere through its men and its works; it subjected its Latin conquerors to its ascendancy in the same manner as it dominated its Arabian conquerors later when it became the Civilizer of Islam.
"The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism"
Franz Cumont
"That hot water should become a Civilizer and should mount in that way to the level of religion, education, monogamy, wealth and the fine arts, is a new view of hot water; but it is a true one in this case, for nothing else could have evolved the Pyrenees so widely or so fast.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
There hain't no hypocrisy and Phariseeism in a good straight club death, and most likely whilst he wuz eatin' me up he wouldn't pose before foreign nations as a reformer and Civilizer of the world."
"Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife"
Marietta Holley