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Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist.
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That which we commonly call civilization is not an adjunct or an acquirement of man; it is neither a creed nor a polity, neither science, nor philosophy, nor industry; it is rather the measure of progressional force implanted in man.
Savagism and Civilization I (June 1875)
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