The phrase "a progress of civilization" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used in contexts discussing the advancement or development of human societies over time.
Example: "The invention of the printing press marked a significant progress of civilization, allowing for the widespread dissemination of knowledge."
Alternatives: "an advancement of civilization" or "a development of civilization".
Since history itself, in Vico's view, is the manifestation of Providence in the world, the transition from one stage to the next and the steady ascendance of reason over imagination represent a gradual progress of civilization, a qualitative improvement from simpler to more complex forms of social organization.
Wollstonecraft spends several large sections of Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark speculating about the possibilities of social and political revolution and outlining a trajectory for the progress of civilization.
"This is a step backward from the progress of civilization in my country," Vitus Media, a spokesman for the Russian LGBT Network, said in a telephone interview.
Amid the heat and acrimony, few have taken the time to recognize what this might signify for the progress of civilization in a world otherwise dominated by 140-character discussions of "Mob Wives".
According to Rifkin, the progress of civilization has been a constant struggle between empathy -- increased human connection -- and entropy, the deterioration of the health of the planet.
The unflappably earnest performers direct the audience members' actions by whispers and by example: people hold hands or chant in a circle or march in place, representing the progress of civilization.
She uses the two modes to continue the critique of the roles afforded women and the progress of civilization that she had outlined in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution.
He was also a dwarf and a hunchback, attributes crucial to this lively fictionalization of his life by the late German novelist, which charts Lichtenberg's love affair with the progress of civilization and, in parallel, his failure to find a wife.
