Sentence examples for degrees of civilization from inspiring English sources

The Japanese based much of their information and terminology on prior Qing era narratives concerning degrees of "civilization".

The more machines, the higher the degree of civilization.

Historically the Mixtec possessed a high degree of civilization in Aztec and pre-Aztec times.

If, as Dostoyevsky said, "the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons," we are in trouble.

"You have some people that just lack any degree of civilization," said Chris Roberts, a Jefferson Parish councilman who has fought to remove FEMA trailers and block subsidized housing developments.

It was then that the principle was put forward that a man could be educated only in his own mother tongue, not in languages of other civilizations and other times, whether they were classical languages or the literary creations of other peoples who had reached a high degree of civilization.

"has belonged to a person of limited intellectual faculties, and we conclude thence that it belonged to a man of a low degree of civilization" (Huxley 1863, pp. 114 115).

He recognized this cranium as that of a fully modern person, concluding that it: "has belonged to a person of limited intellectual faculties, and we conclude thence that it belonged to a man of a low degree of civilization" (Huxley 1863, pp. 114 115).

Gandhi said that the degree of civilization is measured by how people treat animals.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the Russian novelist and philosopher Fyodor Dostoyevsky famously wrote, "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons".