Modern civilisation differs in fundamental and far-reaching ways from Greek and Roman.
The constructive thinker Rousseau was not less aggressive, but he stands apart and opposed, by his hostility to modern civilisation.
I have, therefore, endeavoured to show in this eighth lecture what services Rome and its great intellectual tradition can render to modern civilisation in the field of education.
The survival, in modern civilisation, of the old feeling that the life of a foreigner is not equally sacred with that of a countryman, p.
The prevailing attitude towards war indicates the survival, in modern civilisation, of the old feeling that the life of a foreigner is not equally sacred with the life of a countryman.
Causes of the decrease of the husband's authority over his wife in modern civilisation, ibid.
It is poetic and descriptive rather than polemical, though the author constantly expresses his dislike of modern civilisation, and complains with Burke that this is an age of sophists, calculators, and economists.
At this hour, in remote parts of the great continent of America, the pioneers of modern civilisation may be said to live amid medieval surroundings.
Every now and then some individual member of the Army of Wretches turns and becomes the Devil of modern civilisation.
Question it is if any mediaeval soldiery bursting abroad in Sinigaglia were so brutal as is the street rough, that blot and hideous product of modern civilisation.
Renovators, men of genius, such as the celebrated Shaykh Abduh, have pointed out the right road to Islam, proving to Moslems that the teaching of Mohammad agrees with that of modern civilisation.
Are the three hundred millions of Moslems spread over the surface of the globe, to be condemned to remain eternally in the sad situation established for them beyond the pale of modern civilisation?
Very soon, no one will venture to give credence to the childish legends perpetuated since the Crusades, and Islam will at last claim to take its place in the van of modern civilisation.
At that time Arabic translations revealed to Europe the works of Aristotle and of the Chaldean astronomers, and the Arabs, through Spain, had an important influence on the first period of modern civilisation.
But in making use of such an argument it may be doubted if we are not applying the results of modern civilisation as the standard of primitive ideas.
It is long since the evidences of a primitive state of society, still abounding in the midst of modern civilisation, attracted the attention of the antiquary.
Philanthropic lectures on this world and the next, on the well-being of the people and the diseases of modern civilisation, were the fruits of his activity.
In Millet woman was a product of nature; in Stevens she is the product of modern civilisation.
He began to hurl thunderbolts against the evils of modern civilisation.
They could then concentrate their minds upon their art free from those hundred-and-one discomposing and disconcerting influences which are the concomitants of modern civilisation.
The fact of the matter is that the hurry-scurry of modern civilisation is not conducive to artistic work of any description.
All this machinery, most of which (to the disgrace of modern civilisation) is quite recent in date was absent at Rome.
Thus behind the stormy scenes of public life in this period there is a process going on which will be of value not only to the Roman Empire but to modern civilisation.
The chief defect of modern civilisationbased on democracy is the difficulty of getting best men quickly enough.
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