The phrase "all of civilization" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the entirety of human society, culture, and achievements throughout history.
Example: "The invention of the internet has transformed all of civilization, connecting people across the globe in ways previously unimaginable."
Alternatives: "the entirety of civilization" or "all of humanity".
It is narrower, and it no longer presents an existential threat to all of civilization and all of human life.
You warn that the Michael Jackson trial "threatens to suck all of civilization into its maw" ("The Childhood of Michael Jackson," editorial, Nov. 22).
This is stymied when Jaynes and company return to base camp and discover that a rash of terrorist bombings has knocked all of civilization offline, or perhaps obliterated it entirely.
The most influential sociologist of the era was David Riesman, whose 1950 book "The Lonely Crowd" ventured to break all of civilization down into three basic character types: "tradition-directed," "inner-directed" or "other-directed".
But during the brief window of the past few thousand years in which all of civilization has emerged — those first few steps in our journey — we've enjoyed an almost miraculously equable interglacial climate, the most stable of the past several hundred thousand years.
The diabolical, if artfully staged, homicide of three friends who costumed themselves as 18th-century bacchants and went into the woods on Midsummer's Eve to party convinces Mankell's philosophical Swedish detective, Kurt Wallander, that all of civilization is "coming apart at the seams".
But somehow, amid all the end-of-civilization high jinks, Johnson forgets to give us much concrete detail about the shadowy relationships from Hank's past.
Languages predominantly of each of the types are found in communities at all levels of civilization and with all types of culture.
We also knew of the route's reputation for beauty and had registered the fact that it never strays far from all the amenities of civilization.
It is not as a literary critic that Benjamin has been most influential, however, but as a pioneering cultural critic, one of the first writers to see all the products of civilization as worthy of analysis.
A characteristic common to all these centres of civilization was the control that they exercised over vast areas and the opportunity that they enjoyed through their soldiers, merchants, pilgrims, and missionaries to gather observations on a wide variety of populations.
