Sentence:  As much as the wilfully or naturally blunted, the intelligently honest have to learn by touch: only, their understandings cannot meanwhile be so wholly obtuse as our society's matron, acting to please the tastes of the civilized man—a creature that is not clean-washed of the <WSD>Turk</WSD> in him—barbarously exacts. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A bloodthirsty and savage person; vandal; barbarian.<ref>(R:OED2)</ref> (from 16th c.)