As a matter of fact, barbarism did break out after the flower had fallen from Neoplatonism.
War is the ultimate barbarism, the primitive belief that fighting determines who is right—but of course it doesn't.
He spoke, indeed, bitterly of " the state of barbarism in which the country had been left by the traffic in men."
Passing from the lower savage myths, of which space does not permit us to offer a larger selection, we turn to races in the upper strata of barbarism.
However this does not mean that these countries have lapsed into social barbarism and reverted to their supposedly natural state of primitive savagery.