I am sure that the immediate abolition of the slave trade is the first, the principal, the most indispensable act of policy, of dutyand of justice the legislature of this country has to take, if it is indeed their wish to secure those important objects† For we continue to this hour a barbarous traffic in slaves, we continue it even yet, in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions as civilisation.

-Pitt,William known as  theYounger
  Speech to the House of Commons, 2 Apr.The House did not abolish slavery until1806.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

-Sandys, George
^6  The Life of Reason,'Reason in Religion'.

This barbarous feeling of nationality†has become the curse of Europe.

-Senghor, Le¤  opold Se¤  dar
  Diary, 20 May.