Liberation of the peoples subjected to the tyranny of the Turks and expulsion from Europe of the Ottoman Empire, as being decidedly extraneous to western civilization.

That is one of the ironies of our contemporary civilization.

When service sweat for duty, not for meed!" The moral of our industrial civilization has been shattered.

Still later, the Roman father possessed arbitrary powers of life and death over his children; but it is probable that natural affection and a more advanced civilization commonly made the law a dead letter.

It broke the monotony of the eastern world by the impression of western energy and superior civilization, even as England's present mission is to break up the mental and moral stagnation of India and Cathay by pouring upon and through them the impulsive current of Anglo-Saxon commerce and conquest.

" In a famous book, Degeneration, written at the close of the nineteenth century, Max Nordau, as a pathologist, explains this tendency by arguing that our complex civilization has placed too great a strain upon the limited nervous organization of man.

A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited for the night to pass away; wondering whether the morning light would reveal a savage wilderness, or dawn upon spicy groves, and glittering fanes, and gilded cities, and all the splendour of oriental civilization.

From this movement were developed all those reforms which have made the nineteenth century glorious, monumental in the history of progressive civilization.

the finale of our commercial civilization, is the most monstrous the old Earth has ever seen.

Frederick Becker (C); 11Jan61; R269952. Modern history; the rise of a democratic, scientific, and industrialized civilization.

Like the Troy beneath Troy in the Ilium ruins, we find here successive civilizations resting each upon the debris of an earlier order.

In one sense Solomon left nothing to his nation but monuments of despotic power, and trophies of a material civilization which implied the decay of primitive virtues.

His Universal Beauty voiced his sense of the divine immanence in every part of the cosmos, and emphasized the doctrine that animals, because they unhesitatingly follow the promptings of Nature, are more lovely, happy, and moral than Man, who should learn from them the individual and social virtues, abandon artificial civilization, and follow instinct.

Another is cradled under the influence of intelligences, piety, virtue; having around it always the safeguards of refined and Christian civilization.

It is much more likely that they got it from some alien civilization-a highly advanced alien civilization.

He may have overrated the buried monuments of ancient art, but how was he to escape the universal enthusiasm of his age for the remains of a glorious and forgotten civilization?

It is mournful to think that a brilliant external civilization was so feeble to arrest both decay and ruin.

The natives also became alarmed at the introduction of Western ideas and improvementsnew methods of education, the steam-engine, the telegraph, etc.portending to the Indian peoples the substitution of a foreign civilization for their own.

And there was doubtless a magnificent material civilization which promised to be eternal, and of which every Roman was proud.

Fourthly, considerable groups of ex-enemy peoples, chiefly Germans and Magyars, have been assigned to populations of an inferior civilization.

Simone de Beauvoir (A); 2Nov71; R515993. BECKER, CARL L. Modern history; the rise of a democratic, scientific and industrialized civilization.

The stories which Leith had fed to him continuously concerning the remains of an extinct civilization had worked him up to a pitch that bordered on insanity, and it was pitiful to watch him as he made endless notes in the bulky notebook.

Roman civilization, on the contrary, is a completed experiment, one that came into being, developed over several centuries, attained a zenith of wealth and power, then sank gradually from sight, until it lived only as a part of history.

This is not a war of devastation, but one to give all within the control of its military and naval forces the advantages and blessings of enlightened civilization.

But this does not argue that it is not worth while to learn what we can of the rude civilization of the races whom we have displaced.