I begged his pardon very often for my share of it, protested I had not any such design when first I met him, that I had not gone out with him but that I took him for a very civil gentleman, and that he made me so many promises of offering no
uncivility to me.
The word "human" is mentioned 33 times in the works themselves; its antonym, "inhuman," 8 times, nearly always as a pejorative, denoting savagery,
uncivility, or aberrant behavior.
The arrogance and
uncivility they displayed towards those who were less fortunate the human flotsam and jetsam of the industrial tide.