Contemporary civilization source book.

Civilization builders.

As the trade of civilization advances, the meaning of bread changes.

(4) Wars fought to repel the invasion of migrating peoples attempting to occupy territory over which an empire or a civilization claims jurisdiction.

Expansion gives the ruling oligarchy of the expanding nation, empire or civilization command of the strategic vantage points from which the principle of exploitation can be made continuously operative.

So far as one civilization prevails, the destiny of mankind is linked to a common source of principles, and within the boundaries of a common civilization community of destinies exists.

She has been steady, persevering, and even patient for a hundred years in her struggles for political freedom, whatever mistakes she has made and crimes she has committed to secure this highest boon which modern civilization confers.

Political reforms of western civilization date from the Reformation and the Renaissance.

Of course, war is an instrumentality which a true civilization disowns.

In all civilizations exploitation has been the rule; the exploitation of nature, of labor power and of the social fabric.

Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities and in royal chambers.

As civilization increases, danger to one's personal rights decreases, and stranger ceases to mean enemy.

In every civilization individuals, groups, classes and sometimes castes have exploited or used up fellow humans and fellow creatures to suit their own purposes and advance their own interests.

Our historian of civilization infers hence that each individual is totally subject to a social fate.

Thus, in time, the very refuse of civilization levels the rock with the plain, effacing in the moral, as in the material world, all the pleasing inequalities of nature.

But the "barbarians" who are tearing the social body of western civilization limb from limb are not outsiders, invading a civilization in order to plunder and sack it, but the offspring of well-to-do civilized affluent communities who have repudiated the acquisition and accumulation of material goods and services, turning, instead to the satiation of body hungers and the freedom of social irresponsibility.

In the same context, war may be referred to as a civilization maker.

As a civilization matures, wealth and power (the means of exploitation) are increased in volume and concentrated in fewer hands.

It is only the scurrying, avaricious, fever-stricken, and, for all their wealth, poverty-stricken classes and cliques of the civilization-period who are the sources of discord and strifeand they only for a time.

Greece, politically ruined, still sent forth those influences which made her civilization potent in every land.

When Jesus Christ came into the world the civilization prevailingif such it could be calledwas under the dominion of those who came to steal and to kill and to destroy.

Toward the end of a cycle of civilization quality declines.

The nucleus is the hub from which the spokes of empire and of civilization radiate.

We of the nineteenth century read the Carlovingian romance in the pages of Ariosto and Bojardo, who gave to their materials the colour of their times, and of a civilization rank in some respects, while still unripe in some others.

Many authors left as the heritage to civilization rows of books, and in those books scepticism, indifference, doubt, lack of precision and decision.