The opinion of the powerful and enlightened class, with rare exceptions, made no effort to purify and humanise the grossness of the masses.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Your supposed death will be the cause of your father retaining his lawful authority, and preventing any of the remaining children receiving such injustice as you have done; and remorse will check, if it does not humanise your mother, and I trust that the latter will be the case.
"Valerie"
Frederick Marryat
To humanise the multitude two things are necessary-two things of the simplest kind conceivable.
"The Nether World"
George Gissing