The entire scene was barbaric in its splendor and so impressive that they watched it spellbound, awed and silent.

Italy was peopled by descendants of the ancient Italians, with a thin intermingling of Goths and Lombards; France held half-Romanized Gauls, with a very considerable percentage of the Frankish blood; while Germany was far more barbaric than the other regions.

But when we pass from the idea of the barbaric to the idea of the oriental, the case is even more curious.

Man seemed as barbaric as in the days before the Saviour came to redeem the world, and whether we won or lost the war all hopes of a happier state of things were futile.

"You will get quite barbaric from pure historical research," she said, turning to Edi, "but now it is high time to go to bed, quick!

It cannot, then, be unscientific to compare the barbaric with the civilised beliefs and experiences about a region so dimly understood, and so fertile in potent influences.