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Example sentences for "higher civilization"

  • It will be illustrated in our treatment of race development by the change from early group life and customs to the more conscious moral life of higher civilization.

  • The development of these conceptions requires a growth in individuality; it requires conflicts between authority and liberty, and those collisions between private interests and the public welfare which a higher civilization affords.

  • The people in lower civilization profit more by the wisdom and counsel of the aged than those in higher civilization, and are educated by this experience to respect and value the aged.

  • A society is never conscious of its mores until it comes in contact with some other society which has different mores, or until, in higher civilization, it gets information by literature.

  • The taboos constitute morality or a moral system which, in higher civilization, restrains passion and appetite, and curbs the will.

  • The people of higher civilization will be found amongst those of the other mores to be cited below (see sec.

  • He then gave us his views on coöperation, the only remedy for many existing evils, which he thought would be the next step toward a higher civilization.

  • One lady upon seeing the invitation to the meeting exclaimed: "This little bit of paper is an indication of a higher civilization than I supposed we had yet entered upon.

  • Yet, there is a limit at which new or intensified wants cease to be an element of higher civilization, and become elements of demoralization.

  • Footnote 246-6: Higher civilization, indeed, instead of leading to higher vitality, may lead to immoderate toil and immoderate enjoyment.

  • It has always struck us as strange that sensible men, acquainted with history, could maintain that an aspiration after freedom and a higher civilization gave to Germany and England a leaning toward Protestantism.

  • Sustained and voluntary efforts, in any number, then become possible only by the creation of new wants; but these new wants suppose a higher civilization.

  • Rousseau’s school has laid too much stress on the tendency of higher civilization to diminish individual independence.

  • This explains why it is that, in all countries, the power of the state, in a period of transition towards a higher civilization, has endeavored to render slavery milder.

  • Let us henceforth meet conservatives on their own ground and admit that suffrage for woman does mean political, religious, industrial and social freedom--a new and a higher civilization.

  • We are glad to be a part of this movement for a higher civilization.

  • They are prosperous, and slowly moving along the line to a higher civilization.

  • When we come to the cave-dwellers we see marked signs of a higher civilization.

  • This is the token of a higher civilization.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue glass; expressly said; fete champetre; five wounded; higher animals; higher authority; higher criticism; higher degree; higher ground; higher kind; higher levels; higher mathematics; higher plane; higher position; higher power; higher rank; higher standard; higher state; higher type; higher wages; pearl shell; quack doctor; social evil; striking resemblance; three eyes; vide supra