How To Use Civilisation In A Sentence
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The earliest samples of enamel using glass can be traced to before 2,500 B.C. to the Sumerian and Egyptian civilisations.
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Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction.
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Civilisation as we know it today can only lead to an increasingly unjust, and inequitable, distribution of power across the globe.
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Nor does either of these dramas, though the earlier depicts a corrupt civilisation, include even among the minor characters anyone who can be called villainous or horrible.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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_They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity.
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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With its elegiac note of a civilisation falling apart while two old men continue their moves toward checkmate, the story is a luminous exploration of a culture that is both realisable yet tantalisingly intangible.
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It's an examination of a world that the march of civilisation should have rendered obsolete years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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The following centuries saw the successive rise and fall of new civilisations.
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Charles Gordon Frazer painted Cannibal Feast to provide an insight into the cannibal civilisations he feared were on the brink of extinction after witnessing the feast while hiding in long grass.
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The New Testament injunctions to turn the other cheek and love thy neighbour were a great advance in civilisation.
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It is a natural part of civilisation's lust of re-arrangement that we should be so ready to conventionalise the beauty of this world into decorative patterns for our pilgrim tents.
The Roadmender
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Some of her archaeologist husband's finds can be seen in the museum, which is a must if you want to grasp the sophistication of Syrian art and civilisation of the two millenniums before Christ.
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Human civilisation has developed at an exponential rate since the renaissance, during a time when the environment has been in a relatively benign state.
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The myth of the solar hero can be found within many of the ancient civilisations even before the Christian era.
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Life expectancy is looked on as a measure of civilisation, if not the principal index of cultural achievement.
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Taken together with the loss of classical civilisation and history of art, we are seeing this exam board in effect deleting culture from its curriculum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tales of bare-breasted Amazonian women warriors a myth which gave its name to the river guarded vast civilisations along the river bank.
Why Amazon?
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It's an examination of a world that the march of civilisation should have rendered obsolete years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some say that is precisely what it is - a huge pyramid built perhaps 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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And there is his basic and perhaps rather obvious point that the decline of civilisations proceeds in a serious of routs and rallies.
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Iran is an advanced, potentially liberal civilisation which is trying to fight its way out of a brutal theocratical suit of armor.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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For a few days it seemed as if the veneer of our civilisation was thin.
Times, Sunday Times
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He feels his way through the bowels of the city, conscious of the weight of civilisation above him.
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USA should restore ties, and try to address the moderates in Iran without assuming the civilisationally-superior tone of hectoring or blustering. proudlyleft
New Statesman
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But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.
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The art forms that emerged in the early period of civilisation are primitive and catered to a people who had no alternative.
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I'm sitting right here in the cradle of civilisation.
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The highbrow study claims to demonstrate the huge contribution the "derriere" has made to civilisation, mixing the views of top psychoanalysts, philosophers, scientists and artists.
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And this time, the defeat of a civilisation will have been inflicted by its own side.
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There still exists a very strong conception of islands as places that are different, removed from ‘modern civilisation’.
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Now, whether you seek our civilisation in religion, language, values, aesthetics or habits of thought, you get only a myth or a sniff of it, never the real thing.
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Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
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John Ford's classic western, starring John Wayne, is a political allegory about how ‘civilisation’ managed to conquer America's Wild West.
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That music is a product of civilisation is manifest; for though savages have their dance-chants, these are of a kind scarcely to be dignified by the title musical: at most, they supply but the vaguest rudiment of music, properly so called.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
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Their act of foundation was ‘the bright strong line between desolate barbarism and busy civilisation’.
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But as soon as the productiveness of labour reaches the point at which it is sufficient to satisfy also the highest requirements of every worker, the exploitage of man by man not only ceases to be a necessity of civilisation, but becomes an obstacle to further progress by hindering men from making full use of the industrial capacity to which they have attained.
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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The collapse of western civilisation in technicolour. vogueboy Says:
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a few days it seemed as if the veneer of our civilisation was thin.
Times, Sunday Times
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It describes a foundering civilisation, soon to be overrun, with the obligatory postscript from a future archaeologist noting that the ruins sit upon evidence of yet another culture.
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I doubt there is a 12-year-old in this country who hasn't thought of building a huge dam or a lost civilisation in a pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Mexican Revolution was seen not only as a threat to US interests but to civilisation itself, says curator Juan Manuel Aurrecoechea.
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They can erase the traces of human settlement with such vigour that, often, nothing remains of a civilisation except a few potsherds, coins and glass beads.
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One of them depicts a winged victory and on the obverse side are engraved the words: ‘The Great War for Civilisation’.
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The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it.
The Man in the Twilight
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This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.
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For thousands of years, music has played an important role in human civilisation, from religious and pagan ceremonies to rituals and social events.
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That powerful civilisational rule — where there's a freebie, there's an art-world type — had achieved one of its finest denouements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most come from rural backgrounds and are poorly educated, handicaps for anyone who wants to get ahead in the modern urban-commercial civilisation.
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In my ignorance, I had supposed that Egyptian civilisation spread up the Nile, stumbled on the first of the cataracts and petered out in the great loop in which we were travelling.
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Yet the rejection of elemental decencies and self-respect on which their society is predicated amounts to a collapse of civilisation.
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Civilisation made affluent women sick, while poverty and sin blighted the parturient poor.
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Published in China Review International in 2005, Sivin's essay focused on Needham's Science and Civilisation Volume 7, Part 2, "The Social Background, G.neral Conclusions and Reflections," edited by K.G. Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and used the occasion to give a poignant and nuanced overview of Needham's work as a whole.
Why Didn't Science Rise in China?
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If we say what we really think we fear that the entire fabric of our civilisation will be destroyed.
Times, Sunday Times
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This kind of self-definition has dominated human societies for most of the 6,000-plus years of organised civilisation.
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But we also have nuclear weapons and global warming, which could end our civilisation tomorrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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All these exotic visitors, whose stories are perhaps too briefly told here, were the subject of obscene civilisational value judgments.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they have common antecedents in Greek and Roman civilisation and monotheistic Christianity.
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If we say what we really think we fear that the entire fabric of our civilisation will be destroyed.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are certain areas where all men lose their veneer of civilisation and give vent to the beast within.
Times, Sunday Times
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'I contend for it that all our civilisation is higher, and that class for class we are in a more advanced culture than the English; that your chawbacon is not as intelligent a being as our bogtrotter; that your petty shopkeeper is inferior to ours; that throughout our middle classes there is not only a higher morality but a higher refinement than with you.'
Lord Kilgobbin
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Similarly recent works, like the ones you cite, that revise "upwards" our understanding of the cultural and economic level of indigenous Amerindian civilisation also strengthen the case.
New World Apocalypse, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The collective salvation of our civilisation requires the inner transformation of every individual from the ignorance of materialism and individualism to the Gnosis of collective spiritual awareness.
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Some say that is precisely what it is - a huge pyramid built perhaps 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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So bread came before agriculture and agriculture came before culture and civilisation.
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Based on Mars, The Mysterons are sentient computers constructed by an alien civilisation.
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Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
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Our society has reached its advanced stage of civilisation by developing within a framework of rules, regulations and standards, manifested most obviously in the rule of law.
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He tackles the question of why settlements would only have been established on the coasts, with no inland traces of civilisation.
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Pit involves the discovery we're descended from apemen genetically altered by another civilisation on the verge of destruction so that we, the apemen's descendants, carry parts of their gene-code within us.
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A number of factories are situated on the very bank of the river, close enough to scoop or suck raw materials directly from the holds of ships, and are at work producing some of the less celebrated ingredients behind the smooth functioning of our utilitarian civilisation: the polyols added to toothpaste to help it retain its moisture, the citric acid used to stabilise laundry detergent, the isoglucose to sweeten cereal, the glyceryl tristearate to make soap and the xanthan gum to ensure the viscosity of gravy.
‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’
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Hittite, for example, died out when its civilisation disappeared in Old Testament times.
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But he is amazed to learn he has a teenage son who has been brought up miles from civilisation.
The Sun
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Standing on the ramparts of the fort, there is a palpable sense of history: this is where civilisation once ended and the barbarians began.
Times, Sunday Times
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Much of what we call civilisation is structure that has developed over time to limit monopolies.
Wegman report released « Climate Audit
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A mere indiscriminating restriction of the birth-rate — an end practically attained in the homely, old-fashioned civilisation of China by female infanticide, involves not only the cessation of distresses but stagnation, and the minor good of a sort of comfort and social stability is won at too great
A Modern Utopia
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Meanwhile the Malays and Chinese had managed to build impressive civilisations without so much as a past tense, let alone a subjunctive, or genitive plural.
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The ancient Romans are often seen as bringing civilisation to the western world, but they regarded the slaying of gladiators as a normal form of entertainment.
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It is horrifying that so many conscienceless psychopaths seized their moment to behave like animals once the rules of modern civilisation broke down.
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Remnants of teaching monasteries, stupas, temples and shrines present a haunting spectacle of lost grandeur and of a vanished civilisation - that of Buddhism in India.
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The presence of an "invulnerable" nation among nations that are "vulnerable" means inevitable aggression and war, a perpetual menace to civilisation and humanity.
Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
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The lake was the cradle of Andean civilisation and remains enduringly known as the birthplace of the Inca empire.
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People in different civilisations have invented different writing systems: for example, scripts in Egypt, the cuneiform images in Mesopotamia, and Chinese characters in China.
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The battle for civilisation is not going to end with an armistice or some form of negotiated settlement.
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They are a sign of civilisation, of stability and continuity, of order.
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British archaeologists are enriched not impoverished if one of their colleagues from another country unearths a key bit of the jigsaw of an ancient civilisation.
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Yet the rejection of elemental decencies and self-respect on which their society is predicated amounts to a collapse of civilisation.
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The, ‘Flight or Fight’ mechanism is Mankind's last direct link to animalism, which Civilisation still seeks to expunge from the human psyche.
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How long will it take for the thin crust of civilisation to follow suit?
Times, Sunday Times
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Was it then a necessary thing, that decomposition of the great cities which have governed the world, that affluxion of every passion, every desire, every gratification, that accumulation of reeking soil from all parts of the world, there where, in beauty and intelligence, blooms the flower of civilisation?
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
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A moat of icy water separates them from civilisation.
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The biggest apartheid the state observes is to exclude those who cry for Kauls, wear the colours of Ayodhya, love the wisdom of the civilisational heritage, dare to assert as Hindus in a land which is known as Hindustan too and struggle to live with dignity as Kauls.
The Times of India
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The development of human civilisation is intimately bound up with the domestication of cereals.
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Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations.
Times, Sunday Times
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For man is by nature a monogamous and monandrous being; polygamy and polyandry are inconsistent with the fundamental characteristics of his nature; they are diseases of civilisation which would vanish spontaneously with a return to the healthy conditions of existence.
Freeland A Social Anticipation
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Man has lived in thrall to the sun since the dawn of civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said the true meaning of civilisation and globalisation meant the adoption of the local culture and to blend with the local culture and not to make an isolated island of cultures.
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If we say what we really think we fear that the entire fabric of our civilisation will be destroyed.
Times, Sunday Times
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For it is in this crucible of learning and study that all previous achievements of civilisation will be put to shame.
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Saladin and Richard certainly knew about truce and parley in one era of technological equivalence between their two civilisations.
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Thus, the tide of emigration, swelled from the tiny ocean-drop which marked its first inception more than three hundred years ago to its present torrentine proportions and bearing away frequently entire nationalities on its bosom, still flows from the east to the west, tracing the progress of civilisation from its Alpha to its
Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
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That remains a worthy goal, and solid, practical endeavours such as limiting the detritus we leave behind are part of civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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And what a marvellous generosity there was to his civilisational world-view.
Times, Sunday Times
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The airwaves may be awash with treacly DJs, nerve-shredding jingles and the kind of yammering advertisements that deserve their very own circle in Hell, but no one thinks radio is an affront to Western civilisation as a result.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They are attacking a people, a captive nation, and an historic civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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On this westmost promontory of the beautiful land -- the farthest point reached by the oldest civilisation of Egypt and Greece -- the Sibyl stood on her watch-tower, and gazed with prophetic eye upon the distant horizon, seeing beyond the light of the setting sun and "the baths of all the western stars" the dawn of a more wonderful future, and dreamt of a--
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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Legend tells us that the golden civilisation became so corrupt and depraved that it was destroyed by the angry gods - but did the city ever exist at all?
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Tall and fair, grey-eyed and sinewy, the Teuton was a hardier, more sturdy warrior than the Celt: he had not spent centuries of quiet settlement and imitative civilisation under the ægis of
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
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A common culture, calendar, and mythology held the civilisation together and astronomy played an important part in the religion which underlay the whole life of the people.
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To me, his main point is that the great clash of civilisations is over - socialism (in all its forms, whether sydicalism, anarchism, communism or national socialism or other) has been consigned to irrelevance.
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But underneath the veneer of civilisation are the realities of the war.
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It would be unscriptural, however, to interpret poverty and abundance by the materialistic standards of contemporary Western civilisation.
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It is also a history of change and decay, of accepting some components of an incoming civilisation and rejecting others and refashioning them in a new and familiar guise.
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In his later films Pasolini preoccupied himself with the poetic, allegoric, and mystic in search of a purity of experience that he believed civilisation and modernity had despoiled.
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Cumulatively, however, the proliferation of obscurantist bunkum and the reaction against reason are a menace to civilisation.
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It holds up the assumptions about Beauty, Truth, Genius, Civilisation, Taste and other shibboleths to bracing class and gender analysis.
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He continues on, and finds a Riss world, which is also home to an underground civilisation of humans.
Readings & Watchings 4 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…
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The civilisational reach of India's great textile culture cuts through largely undocumented and unmapped pathways of history.
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They both feature iron-age civilisations bootstrapping themselves up to starfaring capability or thereabouts.
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There is also something importantly wrong here that goes to the heart of libertarianism- and Randianism- and America- and ‘Western civilisation’ which I wish to emphasise is not the same as ‘liberal civilisation’ or cosmopolis- too often an unknown ideal.
Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #45
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I was all funned out and ready to head back to airconditioned civilisation.
Photography
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For years civilisation has been bobbing along on a digital sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is this then the end of the long march of human civilisation, this spiritual suicide, this quiet putrefaction of the soul into matter?
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Dog racing is a symbol of human civilisation, the application of ingenuity and skill to the breeding and training of animals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout history, and across every culture and civilisation, male virility and fertility have always been venerated.
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The evolution of civilisation and social organisation that checks and regulates the lust for revenge and other such instincts compel one to answer in the affirmative.
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The society was so singular, so unique, so finely skewed between wilderness and civilisation.
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The idea that new classical music represents an existential threat to civilisation as we know it is still with us.
Times, Sunday Times
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The great civilisations of Central America - Toltecs, Aztecs and Mayas - were dangerously short of protein, with only the occasional big guinea pig for Sunday lunch.
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The chaos only lasted three days, but it made me aware that the veneer of civilisation is very thin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rationalists have over the centuries and under different nomenclatures given lead to the struggle for civilisation.
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They're our nearest neighbours, and together we've been the greatest force for civilisation and economic and social development the world has ever seen.
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A brilliant historian, he switched his academic focus from French civilisation to human emotions, and has even been a novelist.
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But for 1400 years the meaning of the hieroglyphs - and therefore knowledge of ancient Egyptian civilisation - remained this huge mystery.
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The demise of cheap energy is going to bring the collapse of late-capitalist bourgeois civilisation, and with it great hardship associated with the transition to a more austere and labour-intensive way of life.
Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth
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The building of shelters and huts encouraged man to live in villages and settlements, and this led to the growth of civilisations.
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It's the beat generation, it's be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like all time low-down, and like in ancient civilisations, the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat.
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His own house was very quiet; he could not hear his wife's voice, nor the sound of Nina's footsteps in the big room, opening on the verandah, which he called his sitting-room, whenever, in the company of white men, he wished to assert his claims to the commonplace decencies of civilisation.
Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river
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So at half past three we had the fun of trying to get back to civilisation.
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He will feel the human presence in every corner of Fokida, the centre "omphalos" of the Greek land and he will live its passage and route in their authentic form through mythology, history, art and civilisation.
WN.com - Articles related to Rajasthan bid to promote animal husbandry
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Both used the angular outlines, the burning transparencies, the fixed but still unfathomable symbols of the great mediæval civilisation; but Rossetti used the religious imagery (on the whole) irreligiously, Christina Rossetti used it religiously but (on the whole) so to make it seem a narrower religion.
The Victorian Age in Literature
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Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata.
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Far away from the madding crowd, even the sylvan surroundings of Harappa, the earliest discovered site of the Indus civilisation, is not untouched by the cricket fever that has gripped the subcontinent.
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The world is undergoing a process of recalibration, not the accelerated decline of civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Slavonic' missionaries and apostles, the brothers Cyril and Methodius, who are looked upon by all Slavs of the orthodox faith as the founders of their civilisation.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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The bicycle is one of the most fantastic and beautifully simple inventions of our civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Merchants, far from being sceptics, were often the agents of religious fervour and proselytism on the shifting trade routes between civilisations.
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She had taught at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, from 1976-2000, specialising in the Indus civilisation, urbanisation, trade and pastoralism.
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Whenever a population reaches a certain stage of civilisation and nervous development its procreativeness, quite apart from any effort of the will, tends to diminish.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
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This was the hegemonic text in which Mill periodised Indian history into three periods - Hindu civilisation, Muslim civilisation and the British period.
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Is this then the end of the long march of human civilisation, this spiritual suicide, this quiet putrefaction of the soul into matter?
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Separation from the civilisation at the coast, intense droughts and the unforgiving land bred determined survivors.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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The reason is simple: since the invention of papyrus it has been a civilisational benchmark.
Times, Sunday Times
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They prepared to wage war against the government and the urban civilisation of the coast.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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The only sign of civilisation was an ancient taverna wedged on the rocks, and so we moored the boat and headed in for lunch.
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Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
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This decay must betoken the doom of modern civilisation as it did that of Rome and Greece, unless some new moral or physical factors arise to defeat it.
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I had no education and no knowledge of ‘gorgio’ civilisation, and I grew up wild as the birds, frolicsome as the lambs, and as difficult to catch as the rabbits.
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Greece's plight is being pitched as a battle for democracy in the cradle of civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the 800 years of the Dark Ages, Europe sunk back into primitivism, until the Renaissance broke the grip of superstition and the march of modern civilisation continued, after the long break.
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But I had estimated the distance accurately and I reached civilisation well before the dark.
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As with all terribles simplificateurs, some of his ideas are, at least, suggestive. For example, among the characteristic features of disintegrating civilisations he finds the conjoined twins of archaism and futurism.
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An order of the cosmos had been postulated, together with the claim that human civilisation is to mirror that order, so that everyone will know who he is and how he is to live his life.
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The initial imposition of a Bavarian administration soon after Independence, the effort to shed traces of 'obscurantism' and the 'barbarity' of Ottoman rule; the Western bourgeois invasion of local customs and traditions; the long-standing effort to reconcile the Ottoman past with the legacy of Greece as the centre of European civilisation; and the intense conflict between right and left visions of Greek society since the Second World War have all generated tensions about national identity that have often found expression through various treatments of the 'woman question'.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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The veneer of civilisation that covers the beast within us is thin and can be damaged easily.
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China has a long history of civilisation.
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And the process seemed to take on an almost spiritual significance - as if we were not only cutting our hair, but ritually severing our links with civilisation.
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Europeans weren't much assailed by self-doubt in their encounters with foreign civilisations.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't see how civilisation can survive on anything but an ecocentric basis.
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Yes, early leaders of independent India saw themselves as morally, civilisationally, and intellectually superior to whites Many were also bitterly critical and ashamed of the caste system and Indian feudalism, and sought to modernise traditional social structures.
The Economic Times
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But he is amazed to learn he has a teenage son who has been brought up miles from civilisation.
The Sun
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Yet, just as in a Chinese painting, the wildness of the scene, and its strangeness, accentuates the impression of harmony and civilisation.
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Those who do this are not 'anti-war' at all, but are shadily taking the other side in a conflict where the moral and civilisational stakes are extremely high.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Conquest of nature is fundamental to human progress, and at the centre of the development of civilisation.
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Some say that is precisely what it is - a huge pyramid built perhaps 12,000 years ago by an unknown civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Literate North India, for its part, laments the transformation of a Delhi that was once a byword for elegant poetry, Mughal manners and courtly civilisation.
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If we say what we really think we fear that the entire fabric of our civilisation will be destroyed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He argued that ‘you cannot pluralise civilisation.
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They blamed extremists bent on damaging democracy and western civilisation.
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There is no record of any human being killed by a comet or asteroid-but a large one could destroy civilisation.
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Signs and portents bring us messages, and we should heed them ere civilisation crumbles.
Times, Sunday Times
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I doubt there is a 12-year-old in this country who hasn't thought of building a huge dam or a lost civilisation in a pit.
Times, Sunday Times
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EARTH MONTAGE: All the planet's technological civilisations are brought to their knees in a series of iconic locations: the London Eye spins up until its pods fly off; the advertising displays in Times Square show nothing but goatse. cx; in Tokyo, a photocopier spits out a string of sausages a mile long, drowning an office full of panicking salarymen and office ladies over the course of five harrowing minutes (shown in real time).
Top 50 follow-up
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The political establishment should realise that their ostrichlike reaction to signs of danger has fanned this so-called 'clash of civilisations'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The "simplicity of the ascetic" is usurped by "the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilisation".
Archive 2005-08-01
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Standing on the ramparts of the fort, there is a palpable sense of history: this is where civilisation once ended and the barbarians began.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mother Afrika is the cradle of civilisation and not those geographic entities.
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There are certain areas where all men lose their veneer of civilisation and give vent to the beast within.
Times, Sunday Times
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've always thought your clash of civilisations thesis was - as we say here in Britain - a load of cobblers.
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They were artists who made art for profound civilisational reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now that process, however necessary, however beneficial, involves some of the chief evils of our present phase of what we call civilisation, partly because it has deteriorated the quality of all human products and partly because it has enslaved mankind, and in so doing deteriorated also his quality. 12 Now we cannot abolish machinery, because machinery lies in the very essence of life and we ourselves are machines.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
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This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.
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Mick said how lucky it was that the trip went ahead because while they were lunching at a secluded quay, away from civilisation, they heard children screaming and shouting.
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The lake was the cradle of Andean civilisation and remains enduringly known as the birthplace of the Inca empire.
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This is a condition brought about by the combined effect of evolution and civilisation and for everyone it is quite unavoidable.
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Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
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The resistlessness with which this new view of the life of civilisation has won acknowledgment from men of all classes is amazing.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
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These combine numerology and astrology - knowledge, as he put it, that had remained ‘a forbidden fruit since the dawn of civilisation’.
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But this merely makes her wonder why she has this unhealthy fascination with pre-Columbian civilisation.
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