The phrase "civilization without" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a place or time period devoid of traditional societal structures or advancements. Example: "The post-apocalyptic novel depicts a civilization without government, where humans must fend for themselves in a lawless world."
And, nearly every day, he receives e-mails from strangers who want to help him remake civilization, without the competition, bloodshed, or environmental depredation.
Although he was interested in developing his countrymen's awareness of Turkish history, customs, and beliefs, he thought that the Turkish nation could adopt many of the ways of Western civilization without destroying its Turkish heritage.
But the moment the Russians are ready with a truly versatile collection of ballistic & guided missiles, they could - in theory - destroy the better part of our civilization without incurring any danger to themselves, except from fallout.
The tourist, Bowles wrote in "The Sheltering Sky," "accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking".
"A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology," Hubbard wrote.
In the last two or three decades, excavations have uncovered urban remains and swept aside the conventional wisdom that the Egypt of the pharaohs, in contrast to Mesopotamia, was somehow a civilization without cities.
"We hope that some day we'll develop a sophisticated, non-intrusive archeology that will permit us to learn about these civilizations without disturbing them," said George E. Stuart, a staff archeologist of the National Geographic Society.
The Incas and the Aztecs constructed sophisticated civilizations without writing of any kind.
If we are to persist as a civilization--without burning up half the Earth's furniture in the process--it seems sensible that we should avail ourselves of the much greater reservoirs of energy in the atom itself.
And what would our civilization be without books about something other than teen-age vampires angels?
THE first chapter of "Joy Shtick, Joy Beharr's rambling memoir, is called "Trapped at Exit 60" and describes, in often hilarious detail, the three years she spent in Centereach, "totally isolated from civilization, but without the nice scenery".
