Could it be cured without destroying its cause and reverting to barbarism?

Our people are starving, thirsting, and reverting to barbarism.

Like the one about a planet where those abandoned by the war had reverted to barbarism.

If their descendants still live and retain their name, then they have reverted to barbarism most certainly.

One would almost suppose we had wholly reverted to barbarism, and that our boasted civilization was but mockery.

Drosks periodically built up a machine-age civilization then, for no well-understood reason, carefully dismantled it and reverted to barbarism.

Here, at least, I was sure that we should find what we sought-and ,ifnot, then all Europe had reverted to barbarism.