This, however, is matter rather for a history of civilisation than for a biography of an artist.
Art-music had not yet corrupted folk-music; indeed, it could hardly be said that civilisation had affected the lower strata of society at all.
For the great increase in the mean length of life in France under better hygienic conditions, see Rambaud, La Civilisation contemporaine en France, p.
For the rescue of medical education from the control of theology, especially in France, see Rambaud, La Civilisation Contemporaine en France, pp.
Just as the lives of Buddha and of Mohammed are wrought ineffaceably into the civilisation of Africa and Asia, so the life of Jesus is wrought ineffaceably into the higher civilisation, the nobler social conceptions of Europe.
It is just this intimate union between different nations for the furtherance of the tasks of civilisation which it seems so difficult for the German mind to understand.
German, and Great Britain as a traitor to civilisation because she is allied with Russia, a people of ignorant peasants.
The whole German nation is behind them because for years and years they have taught the nation through the schools, the universities, and the press, their own reading of history and their own idea of what true civilisation is.
It is clear that four great European Powers and some smaller ones cannot engage in war without shaking the fabric of European civilisation to its foundations.
And, in the absence of a Law, what becomes of all our hopes for international action, for the future of civilisation and the higher life of the human race?
This difficulty should serve to remind us how defective the machinery of civilisation still is.
We are now beginning to see where the British and German attitudes towards society and civilisation diverge.
Our civilisation has been based on selfishness, our commerce on competition and the unrestricted love of wealth, our education on the motive of self-advancement.
It has not even the machinery for ascertaining the facts of the case and bringing them to the notice of neutral governments and peoples in the name of civilisation as a whole.
The revolutionaries offered her Western civilisation and Western philosophy, and she rejected the gift with horror.
He fixed his hopes on Cavour, because he alone understood that in human society civilisationis everything, all the rest, without it, nothing.
In attacking France," Cavour wrote, "Pitt preserved social order in England, and kept civilisation in the paths of that regular and gradual progress which it has followed ever since.
They seriously believe that the welfare of humanity demands this sacrifice; they believe that the horrible evils which are ravaging our civilisation will never be removed until women get the vote.
This we know, that in the black hour that has just struck in Europe, the men are turning to their women and calling on them to take up the work of keeping civilisation alive.
Each is a problem of the development of material civilisation, which has (we know it now too poignantly) far outdistanced the growth of civilisation on its social and spiritual side.
The witch is a degraded form of the old priestess, cunning in the knowledge of herbs and medicine, and preserving in spells and incantations such wisdom as early civilisation possessed.
Sanitary science regulates our external body environment as much as the artificial and noxious habits of so-called civilisation will allow.
Man is, therefore, the Chief Assistant to Creation, the Architect of Civilisation and a Full Partner with Nature in Evolution.
Progress of Civilisation is accelerated by constantly extending systems of individual, moral, social and sanitary quarantine.
The superficial trappings of society and even of civilisation have fallen from them, and they appear as they really are--brave or cowardly, noble or base, unselfish or egotistical.
The response of the Irish race the world over to our appeal to rise in defence of civilisationand freedom has been really wonderful.
At first I was moved to sorrow at the thought of the pass to which civilisation has come that the best use which could be made of all this superb youth and manhood in its valiancy was to send it forth into the devouring jaws of war.
The first of these anecdotes, which brings the highest pitch of civilisation so closely in contact with the half-savage state of society, I have heard told by the late distinguished Dr.
Metal, metal, metal,--the sine qua non of civilisation had come at last to the Mandans.
While civilisation was pushing west and west, and crowding them out of their old domains, he was softening as much as possible the rigour of their contact with whites.
With wide-eyed wonder they listened again to the story of that day when civilisation set its first milestone beyond the Alleghanies.
Civilisation had no part or place in Tecumseh's plan.
Civilisation and savagery could not occupy the same territory.
While Ohio was still new, and the Mississippi Valley billowed her carpets of untrodden bloom, an eagle's flight beyond, civilisation leaped to Oregon.
On that October day, 1774, civilisation set a milestone westward.
Our desire to live in the open air became almost compulsory, for though you fly from civilisation and its thralls you cannot escape the social instincts of life.
The progress of civilisation will not destroy crime.
He says the real reason crimes of blood are more common in the South of Europe than in the North is to be attributed to the more backward state of civilisation in the South, and to the wild and mountainous character of the country.
Civilisation so far has unfortunately generated almost as many vices as it has virtues, and he is a bold man who will say that its growth has diminished the amount of crime.
All that civilisation has hitherto done is to change the form in which crime is perpetrated; in substance it remains the same.
Tarde ingeniously contends, the bent of civilisation at present is to travel northward.
The tendency of western civilisationat the present time is to herd vast masses of men into huge industrial centres.
In addition to exercising and strengthening these personal attributes, the climatic influences of what has been called the zone of civilisation have brought man's social characteristics more fully and elaborately into play.
Before he realised it he had left civilisation behind him and was breathing the atmosphere, heady and weird, of the Thousand-and-One Nights.
It's enough that you should know it, should occasionally think of me as being here, to bring misfortune down upon me, to work an incalculable disaster to the progress of this civilisation of ours.
By those charms we believe that she will hold her own against all competitors until literature and civilisation are no more.
And I believe it will be a big thing, a very big thing; I mean to make it a complete compendium of every phase of our great and complicated civilisation from State to State and from shore to shore.
The Indians, who were thus placed between civilisation and death, found themselves obliged to live by ignominious labor like the whites.
Of all nations, those submit to civilisation with the most difficulty, which habitually live by the chase.
The civilisation of the north appears to be the common standard, to which the whole nation will one day be assimilated.
Many of the Americans of the west were born in the woods, and they mix the ideas and the customs of savage life with the civilisation of their parents.
The western states are consequently entirely cut off, by their position, from the traditions of Europe and the civilisation of the Old World.
To found their new states, it was necessary to extirpate or to subdue a numerous population, until civilisation has been made to blush for their success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilisation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
