Christianity and real civilizationwere ignored, and a most dangerous imperium in imperio created.
Amongst the people civilizationmade slow progress.
In all parts of the world a tragedy is enacted when barbarism and civilization come into contact.
If the outworks of civilization were not looked after there would soon be serious danger to the fortress.
They have qualities which might enable them to become the regenerators and the foremost in civilization of all the nations in South Africa.
All the checks which religion and civilizationplace on men had been deliberately cast aside.
Such a system is as incompatible with civilization as with Christianity, and sooner or later must pass away, unless the human race is to come to a standstill, or to go backward.
The spread of Mohammedanism is a partial civilization of some heathen tribes.
And not History only, but Religion then came to a new birth, that was to be the herald of new and better hopes, and of a higher civilization than was known to the ancient world.
And now come modern civilization and Christianity.
Then will the Oriental mind be brought into an impressible state, in which argument and persuasion can act upon it; and it may yield to the combined influence of civilization and Christianity.
India is a country where, more than in almost any other in the world, European civilization comes in contact with Asiatic barbarism.
The question of English rule in India is a question of civilization against barbarism.
Here as in all the places where the Dutch "most do congregate," there is a mixture of European civilization with the easy and luxurious ways of the East.
Filth, squalor, and degradation are the characteristics of the lodge, and the civilization of the log-houses is but little removed from that of the wigwams.
It is already constructed half-way across the State, and will be pushed on, as civilization advances, to the Missouri.
Rapid as has been the advancement of civilization around the Golden Gate, magnificent as its future may be, yet equally grand and majestic will be the northern portal of the great Republic.
Some of the clergymen of Minnesota, like their brethren in other parts of the country, turn their backs on civilization during the summer months, and spend a few weeks with Nature for a teacher.
So wonderfully arranged is this mighty machinery of nature, that millions of the human race in coming years will rear their habitations and enjoy the blessings of civilization in regions that otherwise would be pathless solitudes.
It is not merely that we are Americans, but because in this land Christian civilization is attaining the highest development of all time.
The flowers of civilization are blooming on the border.
As fires blown by winds sweep through the dried grass of the prairies, so civilization spreads along the frontier.
It is the glory of our civilization that it adapts itself to all the circumstances of life.
The place is of no particular account except as a distributing point for government supplies for forts farther on, and the advancement of civilization will soon enable the War Department to break up the establishment.
The Aztecs were pueblo or town Indians, highly organized as soldiers, skilled in arts and crafts, with a developed civilization and certain intellectuality.
Perhaps it was destiny; perhaps we would not now have it otherwise, and the Spanish American civilizationdevelops more interestingly alone.
The Tlascalans were a people who had developed a remarkable civilization and social and military organization, akin to that of the Aztecs.
Even then the struggle was not over, for the Spaniards could ill brook the presence of an independent Indian people in their midst as civilization and population grew in South America.
Rather let us see that they are endowed with many gifts, and that a different phase of world-development and civilization may give these people an opportunity to display their best qualities, of overcoming their serious errors.
Further, this little outpost of the British Empire, if it should always remain such, cannot fail to influence, and to be influenced by, the Spanish American civilization around it.
The poor Cholo has retained one fortunate condition from the civilization of his Inca forbears--he is an independent landholder.
They will not be herded into factories, if civilization consists in that.
To suppose that the Indians of the Cordillera are incapable, or even will be incapable, of receiving a higher civilization is to fall into a sociological error.
With these and one or two other exceptions, the governor may be considered as symbolizing (in so far as he has the capacity) the entire civilization of the mother country.
It was known to Constantine, and crept into importance and worth in proportion as science and art were developed in the civilization of Europe.
The Catholic Church, which has so successfully promoted the civilization of society and the moral regeneration of nations, achieved her triumph by the conversion of those she first drew from darkness.
Were other and higher standards to be accepted, the structure of civilizationas it exists to-day would crumble away and the great machine run down.
The Small Summer Hotel We certainly are the most eccentric race on the surface of the globe and ought to be a delight to the soul of an explorer, so full is our civilization of contradictions, unexplained habits and curious customs.
Leave the centres of civilizationand wander in the small towns and villages of our country.
Every true American must thrill with satisfaction at these achievements, and the knowledge that he belongs to a dominating race, before which the waning civilizationof Europe must fade away and disappear.
There was not a sovereign within the pale of civilization who did not envy Karl August's treasures.
There appeared to be a universal repudiation of old methods, and a new civilization was now the aim of every class of literary adventurers.
The progress of his church needed to be represented as more than growth from natural causes, such as the force of civilization and education.
The height and the boast of our modern civilization is to make women our perfect equals, and to play the game of life with them on an absolutely equal footing.
Then I say the guillotine has done more for civilization than the schoolmaster," cried the other.
That early race had as the center of their civilization the shores of Lake Titicaca.
One of the most remarkable facts connected with this extinct civilization was the accuracy of their calendar and chronological system.
An approximate date when this civilization was at the acme of its glory would be about ten thousand years ago.
It was thus that a Christian civilization first found footing in arctic America.
Even when this foreign influence comes in the form of civilization he seems to sink and pine away beneath it.
The most remarkable problem connected with ancient Mexico is how to reconcile the general refinement and civilization with the sacrifices of human victims.
The difficulty with the Aztecs is how to reconcile such refinement as their extinct civilization showed with their savage enjoyment of bloodshed.
In the preceding chapter we have set forth some of the leading points in the extinct civilization of those races, and also that of the Mayas, who in several respects were perhaps superior to the Anahuac kingdoms.
Other recent antiquaries, however, while fully admitting the Aztec-Tescucan civilization to be real and historical, treat the Toltec theory as partly or entirely mythical.
The attenuated mediaevalism of the Ferrars did not lack a certain refined beauty, but it was hardly suited to the rough work of hewing a road along which civilization might march into a savage wilderness.
For a general comprehension of the dawn of civilization we know of no stronger work.
Such a concession now is only an addition to international policy demanded by the civilization of the age.
It is obvious, Sir, that we are now in conflict with beings who belong to a different plane of civilization from ourselves, and it is important that this unquestionable fact should be made known to the country and to the world.
The work of maritime civilization is not finished.
At last civilizationobtains foothold in Africa, almost under the equator.
The Greek had arisen from his long sleep, had become awake to the fact that civilization is more potent than barbarism.
The great divisions of the world to-day are invaded by travel, and the iron horse carries civilization far and wide.
Those lofty views of human affection and relation which we find in the great poets seem almost foreign to the civilization of to-day.
Still more secondary is the position of sculpture in the civilization of to-day.
Such civilization as Europe has plants itself out in a new country, in a virgin soil; and in the new domain are laid the foundations of an empire whose greatness is destined to reside in her peaceful and beneficent offices.
If the benign law of civilizationcould be relied upon always to govern, then all would be well.
He never feels so happy as when he throws off a large part of his civilization and reverts to the life of a semi-savage.
But those uncivil methods of an imperfect civilization are gradually passing away, and the more refined courtesies, taught, I believe, in all our great schools as well as in the military and naval service, are taking their place.
There was only one boy ever raised in this borderland between ruffianism and civilization who didn't come to grief, and you hated Harvey Merrick more for winning out than you hated all the other boys who got under the wheels.
She belonged to an ultra-refined civilization which tries to cheat nature with elegant sophistries.
Nothing known to civilization is more debasing to morality, truthfulness, honor, and chivalrous manhood than the holding of slaves.
Wild African tribes, the Maoris of New Zealand, or the cannibals of Fiji could do no worse, while England poses as representing the highest degree of modern civilization and refinement.
How closely the lines of civilization and of barbarism intersect each other in all populous centres!
Was it really an accomplishment to bring the thing calledcivilization to Puget Sound?
Here in this brutal and majestic wilderness the ten thousand years between white civilization and savagery had no meaning.
In war these things are morally just what they would be if they were perpetrated in the heart of peace and civilization by a gang of thugs.
Few, if any, will deny that a sound civilization must depend upon sound popular education.
True civilization requires that not only the physical and intellectual, but also the moral and religious, well-being of the people should be improved, and at least with equal care.
Over a great part of the continent civilization is at a low ebb, yet in some parts the natives have shown considerable skill in agriculture and various mechanical arts, as in weaving and metal working.
The term is also applied to designate the successive epochs or stages of civilization in history or mythology.
Civilization took on a charm which it had not hitherto possessed.
So doth the white man's civilization creep upon and subdue the Amerind, destroying his robust contempt for the elements and making of him a Sybarite.
He did not depart from the customs and thoughts bred into him by many generations, but the renegades violated every teaching of their own race that had brought civilization to the world, and he hated and despised them.
The civilization of the house and the city sank quite away.
And I believe the ideal mother is the product of a civilization that rose from the manger of Bethlehem.
The scale of civilization always ascends the line of religion; the highest civilization always goes hand in hand with the purest religion.
The virtue of womanhood is the rampart of our civilization and we must not let it be betrayed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
