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You've conflated evil and civilization.
No, actually I've conflated virtue and civilization.
According to Emile Benveniste (1954[4]), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2): "Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation."