How To Use Civilization In A Sentence

By 1100 the civilization of Europe was somewhat stabilized.
The art installation suggests the continuity and fragility of Mediterranean civilization, reminding us of the simultaneous remoteness and seamlessness of the past.
The ancient civilizations of Central and Latin America were founded upon corn.
Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
I need to own a gun, multiculturalism is evil, and they have some hallucinatory fantasies about Aryan civilization.

When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization.
Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
All ancient civilizations have records of the use of herbs in the treatment of common illnesses. Eczema Relief - the comprehensive self-help plan
The main motive of social security system is to protect those puniness group. Social security system is the important character of social modernization and civilization.
Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
It is quite another to attribute a sense of mechanical consciousness to ancient pre-industrial civilization.
a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes
Imagine that on only a handful of these worlds life evolved into intelligent life and built a civilization. The Sun
It is generally accepted that the Chinese civilization is one of the oldest in the world.
If he wasn't so dependent on her for his own survival, he would just get up and keep walking until he reached civilization.
It bore that air of uncostly refinement which is one of the most pleasing outward features of the aloof civilization to which it, though not the Callenders, belonged. Kincaid's Battery
The development of western civilization is predicated on the ambition to achieve mastery over nature and to manipulate it unrestrictedly.
shaps," or overalls, he wore the trousers of civilization, which the rapid night had hitched half-way to his knees. Empire Builders
You can't easily replicate that kind of creepy omniscience, and until today it makes me wonder whether some god-like entity of biological origins is behind the progress of human civilization. MIND MELD: The Best Aliens in Science Fiction
If this is a clash of civilizations, then one of our soldiers has just been murdered by our barbarian enemies.
Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilizational power?
This thrust reflected his deepening disappointment with Western civilization.
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression. January 2010
In the regional game of water politics, thousands of years of pharaonic civilization is Egypt's royal flush. Thirsty Egypt Clings Tight To The Nile
Valleys and sweet plains, waterfalls and rivers, glades where lovers would have walked and confluences where towns could have been built, the lovely island had all these accouter-ments, these alluring invitations to civilization. Hawaii
McCrimmon followed, keeping, as became an upholder of the dignity of Western civilization, several ostentatious paces to the rear. THE LONELY SEA
A repetitive set-top game called Search for the Spear of Destiny requires a beginner's level of dexterity, and delivers trivial lost-civilization factoids as reward cookies for successful play.
Xi'an , The Civilization City, The Eternal City, Humanity in harmony with nature, The World style.
There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
The repeated recitation of upstate New York towns, with their echoes of classical greatness - Thrace, Troy, Rome, Ithaca, Carthage - are ironic echoes of other lost civilizations.
I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
European civilization was the first to impose itself across the whole world.
Credit is an outcome of humanity civilization, and is the social relation in essence.
Modi is helped in his ambition by the general atmosphere of civilizational tension. India’s New Face
Civilizations run by hedgehogs tend to have a fetish for uniformity; those run by foxes are more tolerant of diversity.
Not reason, but unreason is man's primary attribute - not only man's but all western civilization as well.
The effects of comet and asteroid impacts are potentially damaging to life in general, and to human civilization in particular.
If history is any guide, the power to transmit crack-proof codes could alter the fates of civilizations.
After the fall of the Roman Empire the rising Arab civilizations began to cultivate melons.
What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
It is a fit organ for the millionaire corruptionist and the civilization that he is degrading.
Most of us realize that humanity made a grave mistake by considering ancient civilizations to be primitive.
But this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will, cannot coexist with reflection: it disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood. Uncollected Prose
In pursuing the dictums of their scriptures venerating diversity, Hindu civilization is the only civilization which has never attacked any other civilization out of an impulse to convert.
Human civilization has grown to its present day modernness thanks to scientific advances. Review: _Something Magic This Way Comes_ edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt
This being so, civilization in the singular has lost some of its cachet.
When thus arranged, they reveal with some degree of certainty the entire range of human progress from savagery to civilization.
What we certainly can see is a tendency towards synthesis and dynamic development, a typical feature of Minoan civilization.
This continent bore a very advanced civilization, but was devoured by the ocean in some unspecified catastrophe.
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Savagery, etymologically derived from the Latin word for "forest", was associated with wildness and stood in opposition to civilization. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
One explanation is that "our civilization gets knocked back to a pre-electronic state, " such as brought about by devastating solar activity.
Much of the hostility towards civilization felt by people in the suppressed classes is understandable.
In some eyes at least, it amounted to a single civilizational complex or world system.
A common form of language was projected as the pathway to progress and civilization.
We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.
You'd better get petrol here where we're going is the last outpost of civilization.
Diversity of political civilization is its basic character, existing mode and motivity.
GATINEAU, QC, Nov. 26/CNW Telbec/- Striking workers from the Museum of Civilization and War Museum voted overwhelmingly to reject a final offer from the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation this evening, at a membership meeting in Gatineau. Undefined
Hu pointed out that diversity is a fundamental feature of civilizations of mankind and thanks to this feature the world becomes colorful.
Whether in tribal societies or in great empires of ancient civilization, exogamous alliance is always important means to strengthen the statues of a social group.
The situation is that of the outsider meeting the pleasures of a different, reputedly splendid civilization.
The term "Afrocentric" means exactly what the name implies, "African centered" as opposed to the Eurocentric foundation on which westerncivilization was built. Afrocentrism for Dummies (and other Conservatives)
While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome. The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
It has come to spread strange new tastes from an advanced enlightened civilization.
But to make the bridge between the micro-level of such broken souls and the macro-level of this unmatched global power, evil needed to use the middle range of these interlocking structures of that brokenness which is at the heart of evil, the socio-cultural-political dimension of the American civilization. Evil and the Oval Office: A Spiritual, but also Naturalistic, Perspective on the Bushite Regime
To study Western Civilization is to affirm your intent to "colonize" weaker nations and peoples. EducationNews.org
Britain stood for political ideals that must prevail if western civilization were not to break down.
Throughout the ages, many great civilizations have extolled and benefited from the use of colour as a powerful healing agent. Alternative Health Care for Children
Why was she on this distant planet, trying to discover how the Althosian civilization was destroyed?
And what was so civilization-threatening about the portly pepperpot anyway? How to Serve Dish
In fact, it has become the hallmark of Arab/Islamic decivilization, dysfunction and deterioration; and which is psychologically inevitable when a group resorts to paranoia and psychological projection to defend against reality. Archive 2009-01-01
Developing teleology is the organic union of corporeal civilization, politics civilization and spiritual civilization.
Today, it is another kind of crusade, to protect the sacred places of the earth wherein dwell freedom and justice, and good faith and mercy, and humane and Christian civilization. The Present Challenge to Canada
Ambassadors were still providing a way for distant civilizations to meet and compare one another. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
You may know me as an exactingly subtle novelist who peels away the artifices of European civilization to expose the twitching nerves of the human animal.
The ancient civilizations of Central and Latin America were founded upon corn.
Information has occupied an important role in all societies since the dawn of civilization.
They became "invincible" - natural-born jungle - and night-fighters, as well as "utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. MotherJones.com
Gold was totally unknown to their civilization.
And he starts to write in his notes what Kirsten Powers, in the Daily Beast, remembered: he described himself as "definer of civilization ... leader possibly of the civilizing forces. Gingrich Is Inspiring—and Disturbing
The German historian Oswald Spengler argued in his book The Decline of the West (1918-1922) that civilizations, like organisms, go through a cycle of birth, development, and death.
I have come a long way from my days of getting jiggy for my "crackberry" as a colleague used to refer to hand-held electronic devices; nonetheless, I feel a vague uneasiness when far from the ability to reach out and touch civilization. Meg Pier: Silence of Spain's Tabernas Desert
The ancient Greeks, Chinese, Hindus and many other cultures and civilizations all had their initiates who were highly developed mentally, morally, and spiritually – these men and women were well beyond their time and the lay people viewed them as demi-gods and apotheosized them. Hand Signed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
It is an international trend for people to move into cities which are the crystallization of human civilization.
This type of moral narrative appears to have been common to Near Eastern civilizations.
No handwringing, no declaiming the end of Western civilization due to loose-moraled hipsters and free agent nation types swapping spit and job leads on the Internet.
Fitu-Iva wanted civilization; it wanted more and more civilization. THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
Which of the Two Can Represent Greek Civilization —— Sparta or Athens?
In her widening influence, growing liberty, and freedom, I see impearled a prophecy of an altruistic era -- a civilization triumphant -- rising against to-morrow's purpling dawn. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
His magnificence are Chinese civilization magnify and expression of ages atmosphere.
Such a state tends to be rare in contemporary western civilization.
We spent a week visiting the wonders of Ancient Greek civilization.
War irrupts convulsively into the history of civilizations as a loss of control, partially managed by competing political interests.
From the official perspective, the issue was simple: barbarism versus civilization.
I know you are, but I also know you're not very outdoorsy, and that you'd much prefer to be in civilization if you can help it.
When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
But when they are in our custody, when they are defenseless, it is a mark of Western civilization that we treat them humanely.
While most of the Culture lives in this peaceable way, some spend their life fighting amongst more primitive civilizations.
Credit is an outcome of humanity civilization, and is the social relation in essence.
Anyway, interstellar travel would be amazingly expensive - perhaps too expensive for most civilizations to contemplate.
Each viewed his trial as a pivot on a line in history dividing barbarism from civilization.
We sat there mesmerized by the ringing baritone of his inspired voice, coming, as if from the hollows of a cave from some part of a high mountain range, where civilization could never reach or discover.
Diogenes, known for sleeping in a tub in the porticoes of temples, eating with dogs and defecating in public, was a sardonic reminder of how thin the veneer of Athenian civilization could be. Tales of Jaunty Anarchy on the Nile
He was a competent woodsman and would have had no problem traveling inland through the bush and back into mainland civilization anonymously.
Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization.
I use the term barbarism in contradistinction to civilization, and very respectfully refer to authorities of repute in justification of this use of the word, both to designate the quality of the _thing_, and the precise locality of its fittest application; for although The Right of American Slavery
ancient civilizations such as those of the Etruscans and Sumerians
Learning is the foundation of human civilization. Dr T.P.Chia
Political philosopher James Burnham explained why in his classic study, Suicide of the West: “For Western civilization in the present condition of the world, the most important practical consequence of the guilt encysted in the liberal ideology and psyche is this: that the liberal, and the group, nation or civilization infected by liberal doctrines and values, are morally disarmed before those whom the liberal regards as less well off than himself.” Turning Liberalism on itself...
The Daggian faith was based on the belief that an ancient man called Dagan had received divine insight to organize all mankind into countries and civilizations after centuries of barbarism.
In the 13th century, an alliance of Northern European towns called the Hanseatic League created what historian Fernand Braudel called a "common civilization created by trading. The New World Order
Iâ€™d add support for a Jewish cultural, religious, academic, and educational reneaissance: supported as central to the idea of what it means to be a people with a faith and a homeland, and enacted in a pluralistic way that encourages the development of new and varied forms of Jewish-&/Israeli civilization, without being ignorant of its histories. Towards a New Pro-Israel Left | Jewschool
Hunger, disease and civil disorder would destroy what was left of civilization.
That would pretty much set the stage for a generations-long clash of civilizations, with my beloved, sometimes benighted country as the aggressor.
Mayan civilization had collapsed by the sixteenth century, when Spanish expeditions reached the area.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. Sigmund Freud
There had been a mutiny on board, and the mutineers had taken the ship off in search of a fabled lost civilization.
Such tendencies can be modified only by advancing civilization and by gradual spiritualization.
It implies, I think, a fundamental break with the domination impulse by which we have "tamed" nature over the millennia of recorded history and built our unstable civilizations, propped up by war and conquest. Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum
All the arts received some attention in classical Mediterranean civilization. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
This nomadic horde on horses is supposed to have ‘conquered’ a civilization covering an area of almost 800,000 square kilometers.
Yan Yiming says, announce public general affairs publicly transparently, be political civilization is indispensible.
Britain, he declared, and British laws and achievements, were the acme of human civilization.
Yes, the movie sees the rule of law as making the difference between civilization and banditry, but that doesn't stop it from celebrating the violent and unauthorized murder of the villain by the hero.
It is a clash between barbarism and civilization.
Liberty and civilization are only fragments of rights wrung from the strong hands of wealth and book learning.
Sometimes they flourished as city-state systems, as in early Sumeria, classical Greece, the Maya civilization, and medieval Europe.
Islamic World vs the Western World: A Clash of Civilizations?
violate the basic laws or human civilization
On the other hand, civilization, house-building, warm apartments and kitchen fires, well-stored larders, and especially exemption from rude toil, abolish these extreme caricatures; and keeping appetite down to a middling level by the rote of meals, and thus taking away the incentives to ravenous haste, they allow the mind to tutor and variegate the tongue, and to substitute the harmonies and melodies of deliberate gustation for such unseemly bolting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
He just came in and destroyed this really high civilization and then left.
Education is the heart of human civilization, and the source of human creativity, power and greatness. Dr T.P.Chia
After a spine-crushing three hour journey from the small city of Coca in an open-air ranchero, a motorized canoe transported us 150 miles from civilization into the remotest bowels of the jungle. Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe
Rather our technological future is headed toward a neo - biological civilization.
It may be many years before the true impact of 2004 on the development of a true spacefaring civilization is understood.
Organized cooperation among various levels of producers and consumers is the essence of what economic systems are supposed to contribute to civilization.
Canaanitic wave at least as early as Babylonia, and thanks to various causes -- to the absence of a prior local civilization as advanced as the The Ancient East
On the outcome of the race between man and power depends the future of modern civilization.
Such a civilization may seem remote, but the general concept is already in practice; if our telerobotic probes continue to increase in sophistication and brain-power, they'll eventually become indistinguishable from living creatures, at which point we will have effectively achieved the "Singularity" advocated by technoprogressives such as roboticist Hans Moravec and inventor Ray Kurzweil. Archive 2006-06-01
Ambassadors were still providing a way for distant civilizations to meet and compare one another. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
The Victorians regarded the railways as bringing progress and civilization.
They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and "devilry" as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Young Dick learned death — not the ordered, decent death of civilization, wherein doctors and nurses and hypodermics ease the stricken one into the darkness, and ceremony and function and flowers and undertaking institutions conspire to give a happy leave-taking and send-off to the departing shade, but sudden death, primitive death, ugly and ungarnished, like the death of a steer in the shambles or a fat swine stuck in the jugular. CHAPTER V
The clash of civilizations sought by the Bush administration's neoconservatives appears to be nearly at hand.
GINGRICH: No. The intellectuals around me would -- if you wanted to use the term intelligentsia -- I mean, there's a self-identified, elite intellectual group in America who see themselves as the guardians of this alternative to traditional American civilization, and these are folks who write what I think is largely gibberish and explain deconstructionism and all sorts of ideas that I, frankly, don't pay much attention to, but that are somehow mystically going to be better than American civilization: multiculturalism, the counterculture, etc. To Renew America
We are so covered with layers and layers of refinement, of social polish, of airs and graces and civilization and pretensions that the human in us almost ceases to exist.
Art and music are among the great products of human civilization.
In a sense, Chinese modernization was wholly modeled after the Western civilization.
In this world of the twenty-first century, with all but five per cent of the population concentrated in the mechanized cities, to be out here, miles from civilization, beyond all hope of communication, off the regular air lanes and without radiophone or heliograph. "The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 4
The government witness Atef Shafik, a senior language analyst for the FBI, made the argument that Muslims using common phrases that refer to peace and God are terrorists because the phrases reveal that they are Islamists, and this makes them part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which he described as a shadowy anti-Israel organization that calls for the destruction of the Western civilization from within, in order to replace it with an Islamic society. Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
The exploration of the Chinese ancient civilization involves the analysis of the early vassalage.
From the region round about it at least seven canoeable rivers descend to civilization. Days Off And Other Digressions
But they wrought their awful romances of crime in lands where the sun of supreme civilization, through a gorgeous evening of Sybaritic luxury, was sinking, with red tints of revolution, into the night of anarchy and national caducity. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
French Nation has contributed so much to civilization, and so much in art, beauty, and in great qualities, it is our duty to stand by France, and to prevent her being crushed by the oversexed, that is to say, overmasculine, country of Germany. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into barbarism are in reverse.
His philosophy is that we were seeded by an ancient civilization.
Throughout the ages, many great civilizations have extolled and benefited from the use of colour as a powerful healing agent. Alternative Health Care for Children
During the past fifty years, these people have made rapid strides toward civilization, monandry and monogamy taking the places of polyandry and polygamy, and fifty or a hundred years hence, this matriarchate will, in all probability, entirely disappear. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
Finally, the existence of civilization allows man to remain innocent or ignorant about his true nature.
Originally consumed in ancient South American civilizations, cassava is a root plant that grows like potato. Arico Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Cookies
Besides the famous Golden Age of Athens, earlier Greek civilizations also flourished and produced sightworthy art.
By mastering hieroglyphics , Champollion unlocked a mystery and brought back to life one of the world's oldest and most fascinating civilization.
I feel lonely, a wanderer discovering a lost civilization.
If the bold scheme could be carried through there would again be a Roman emperor in the West, Latin Christianity would stand strong and unified against schismatic Byzantium and threatening Saracens, and, by the awe and magic of the imperial name, barbarized Europe might reach back across centuries of darkness, and inherit and Christianize the civilization and culture of the ancient world. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
On the one hand, they possessed no deep appreciation for what Latin civilization was, or how it functioned.
His knowledge of ancient civilizations is unrivalled.
The parochial provincialism of mindless Eurocentrism has distorted the history of civilization as originating in Greece while summing up India's contribution in a line or two.
I think that Athens might have been on their list of cultures that contributed to the advance of civilization but I doubt that the anti-intellectual, child killing Spartans would have been emulated. Think Progress » Rep. Paul Broun: The ramifications of health reform will be like ‘the Great War of Yankee Aggression.’
A praise-worthy tendency, encouraging the peoples of Europe to unite, is confronted today with the impossibility of harmonization of the atrophied and hypertrophic parts of our civilization. Odysseus Elytis - Nobel Lecture
Metal helmets were worn by hoplites, the foot soldiers of ancient Greece, and elsewhere in eastern Mediterranean civilizations.
I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
He used to say man has had his chance - man has bungled, man has blundered, man has built up a civilization of violence and war, of hatred and strife - the new civilization will be built by women.
In 1993, any reasonable facsimile of civilization would have had me committing indecencies with the bus station tarmac.
Discover the history and culture of civilizations ancient and modern. Times, Sunday Times
The film's subject matter of human civilization wiped out by the elements is eerily highlighted by newsworthy weather events of 2003, including the heatwaves in Europe and India that killed tens of thousands of people.
Nazis condenmed ’syphilization,’ celebrated barbarism, and wish to bring about the end of civilization. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Anti-Industrial Revolution
While this may have been true for the cases of the three earliest civilizations, further study of early Chinese civilization shows that irrigation-based agriculture did not play a major role in developing hierarchical institutions, and the absence of major river valleys in Mesoamerica and the region of the Andes civilization brought an end to the old river valley theory of the origins of civilization. D. Comparisons
It's not the series' finest episode, but it's arguably the funniest, as the mobsters slowly lose touch with reality and civilization.
Their fantastic onslaughts undoubtedly delayed the development of the great civilizations that were their neighbours.
States and Territories, that the axe and the plough are the pioneers of civilization, that farms, cities, and villages, the schoolhouse, and the church, rise from the wilderness, as if by the touch of an enchanter's wand. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
Under circumstances of poverty and the consequent privations, it is absurd to say that a Hindu should try to be as openly charitable as his forefathers were in the Golden Era of our civilization.
How does it feel to be back in civilization after all those weeks in a tent?
Progress in al] the skills of civilization has been steady and gradual (pedetemp - tim, 5.1453); some are still advancing (5. 332-37), but in general they are said to have attained their perfec - tion (summum ... cacumen, 5.1457). PROGRESS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
God is the spiritual pillar of American civilization and the unshaken belief of Americans.
The coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for example, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which bestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster, who grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in the street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of civilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a breathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief and contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's stage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns -- those ancient, long glorious, and most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
The great museums of the world bear witness to the extensive impact of monotheistic spirituality upon human civilization.
Lucky charms, amulets, and talismans have been found in virtually all civilizations throughout recorded history.
A great civilization had to be able to fill its rivals, and their ambassadors, with awe. Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
Through this astounding revolution, she rediscovered her original pride and her dignity as a great civilization.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. Sigmund Freud
Standing in the camphorous light of the station, the glowing things of civilization all around her, a single silkworm rappels delicately from the ticket kiosk. COCOONED • by J.A. Matthews
While we were absent even these few months from the great centers of civilization, tremendous advances had been made in air-ships and the thousand and one other modern phases of human development, but evolution in the world of Nature as we observed it was only destructive -- a world-wide katabolism -- a retrogression often discernible from month to month. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
He stated that the level of a people's civilization depended upon their environment instead of their ethnicity.
Modern political civilization is first of all more the constitutionalist civilization than the constitutional civilization.
Scarlet Plague, The (1912) The relapse of civilization into barbarism is a theme which, as those familiar with London's style will at once see, is admirably suited to his powers as a novelist. JACK LONDON'S WRITINGS
Sometime in the next few decades, assuming civilization is still here yadda yadda, a company will manufacture and market a cleaning robot capable of “stopping messes before they start,” including learning and self-initiative. Matthew Yglesias » The Rise of the Machines

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