Civilization

Examples

• The shady retreat furnished relief from the garish day to the primitive man, and the opaque shades and Venetian blinds of modern civilization exclude the excess of light at our windows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It had to go to school to Greco-Roman civilization; it also borrowed rather than evolved its culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the uses to which they are put are civilization, and without the things the uses would be impossible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the fifth century the great civilization of Rome fell under the ruthless attack of the northern barbarian. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From the very beginnings of civilization the little children of the poor had always been obliged to do whatever work they could do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is it for this that we are asked to throw away the civilization which is the growth of ages? Plato. The Republic.
• They came into this inheritance of a previous civilization with the ideas and traditions of the woodlands still strong in their minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It would be impossible to transplant the Aristophanic comedy to England, for modern civilization is too complicated to admit of such free speaking. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As in the Indian civilization, the leading class is an intellectual one; less priestly than the Brahmin and more official. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Naturally enough under the circumstances the nomadic peoples were always supplying the civilizations with fresh rulers and new aristocracies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our geographical isolation preserves us from any vivid sense of national contrast: our imaginations are not stirred by different civilizations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And the Semitic nomads were closer to the earlier civilizations, a thing that fitted in with their greater aptitude for trade and counting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have shown the necessary relationship of these early civilizations to the early temples and to king-gods and god-kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is a considerable imaginative appeal in the obscure story of the early American civilizations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The old civilizations created tradition, and lived by tradition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this matter, again, the records of ancient civilizations show the pains that were taken to fix these essentials of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The nobility of the old river valley civilizations arose out of the court system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was cut off from the civilizations to the west and to the east by vast mountain barriers and desert regions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such organizations of restriction upon free intercourse have come and gone in great variety in the history of all long-standing civilizations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At last there happened to Egypt what happened so frequently to the civilizations of Mesopotamia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are the foundation of that national vigor through which civilizations mature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A vast proportion of mankind in the early civilizations was employed in purely mechanical drudgery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Medi?val Germany went as far as any of the Western heirs of the first great civilizations towards a fixation of classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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