In early society, and likewise in the earlier period of modern civilization, the family was a great economic unit.
Such a series of pictures as Balzac has given in his Comedie Humaine, shows better than any labored description the possibilities of modern civilization.
I believe in modern civilization, as I believe in Christianity.
Thus England gives to her Asiatic empire the substantial benefits of modern civilization; while in her schools and colleges she brings the subtle Hindoo mind into contact with the science and learning of the West.
The first of these proceeded from the Roman Pontiff, the convener of the Œcumenical Council; the other was the cry of modern civilization, proclaiming its own power and its ideas of universal progress.
The other utterance, that of modern civilization, inspired by the idea that it was an invincible and independent power, spurned the thought not merely of supernatural aid, but even of supernatural authority.
It was brought in by the barbarians, and placed in the cradle of modern civilization.
It seemed as if, to gratify their ardent wishes, modern civilizationmust be moulded according to the ancient.
Guizot, "were called to contend against the general course of events, against the development of modern civilization, against the liberty of the human mind.
Now it is a simple fact, that the principles and laws which have wrought out whatever is high and excellent in modern civilization, have been derived from the Christian religion.
You are trying to give me an insight into the nature of modern civilization: could there be a better opportunity than this?
They denounce, "with maledictions and threatenings, the course of modern civilization.
Many affections of the nervous system already bear a name which implies that they are a direct consequence of certain influences of modern civilization.
We are living in a time of general depravity; at least, it is so as regards those who pretend to march at the head of modern civilization.
France has fallen because she has been false to her mission as the leader of modern civilization, because she has led it in an anti-Catholic direction, and made it weak and frivolous, corrupt and corrupting.
Judgments like these are for them the expressions of a mind opposed to modern civilization, and lost in obsolete ideas.
Ability to lead in the light of modern civilization.
This system may instill into students the majority of the regenerating virtues mentioned above, but it is impossible for this system to impart the ability to lead in the light of modern civilization.
It will be well for us to pause here to consider temperatures at the other end of the thermometer scale, how they are obtained, and the important part they play in modern civilization.
Christianity, the spirit of faith, hope, and love, is the deep fountain of modern civilization.
This Christian element in modern civilization saves it from the double danger of a relapse into barbarism on the one hand, and a too refined luxury on the other.
But in modern civilization a third element has been added, which has brought these two powers of Northern freedom and Southern culture into equipoise and harmony.
The dynamo is one of the great factors of modern civilization, and its potential name, like that of "dynamite," rightly defines its character.
The negative conditions of that period extend into such an appalling void that we stop short, shrinking from the thought of what it would mean to modern civilization to eliminate from its life these potent factors of its existence.
But railroads and steam-cars constitute only one of the stirring elements of modern civilization.
The tendency of modern civilization is to a union of States, when their language and interests and institutions are identical.
It may be that I do them an injustice, and that they would offer as excuse the incontestible fact that Mediaevalism contributed nothing to "modern civilization," either in religion or philosophy, that it was willing to accept.
In the harlequinade of fabulous material success the nations of "modern civilization" suffered a moral deterioration, in themselves and in their individual members; by a moral regeneration they may be saved.
What is the contribution of the library to modern civilization?
We have long been accustomed to speak of three great factors in modern civilization--the school, the church, and the home.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modern civilization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
