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ISIS saw conflict with America as the best way to rally Muslims to its side in the war of civilizations it sought to provoke.

But an alliance of civilizations it is not.

Art is the perfect link that put together civilizations; it is also what remains.

If Al Qaeda wanted to start a clash of civilizations, it sure got one.

In ancient Greece, China, Babylon, and indeed all pre-modern civilizations, it was almost universally believed that Earth was the center of the Universe and that all the "planets" circled Earth.

So it is perhaps no surprise that modern France, which hosts a Muslim population of nearly 5 million, largely hailing from its former North Africa colonies, has become the sharpest edge, the prime battleground, of the clash of civilizations it seeks to avoid.

Into this situation Christianity was injected, and in its encounter with classical civilization it absorbed a number of the critiques of the gods of the older thinkers.

What we was livin' was not civilization, it was uncivil.

Mr. Lewis himself was singularly averse to that contemporary world and the industrial civilization it spawned.

If envy is a tax levied by civilization, it is one that everyone must pay.

We agreed that while it might be bad for civilization, it would be very good for journalism.