It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages(野蛮人); so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently——this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done——is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of settling their quarrels rather than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won, and not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what is going to mean in a war, it means saying that might is right.
58.In the author's opinion, the countries that ruled over a large number of other countries are_____
A.possibly the most civilized but not the greatest
B.possibly the greatest in some degree but not the most civilized
C.certainly not the greatest in any way
D.neither the greatest nor the most civilized
59.The author says that civilized people should___________
A.not have any quarrels to settle
B.not fight when there are no quarrels to settle
C.settle their quarrels without fighting
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