Sentence examples for highest civilization from inspiring English sources

William Styron "In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.

In the century since Darwin brought forth his theory, even our closest relatives, the great apes, would be appalled by how the products of our highest civilization can behave with such savagery, and only the congenitally ignorant would argue that man has made any progress at all toward becoming a more intelligent, more compassionate animal.

The highest civilizations are eventually brought low: The Persians destroyed the Acropolis; the Visigoths sacked Rome; the Vikings plundered Europe.

Soon there may be no more higher civilization to rescue.

Although the highlands remained heavily populated, these lowland cities became the centres for a higher civilization.

Other dichotomies also recur: primitivism (or wildlife) versus high civilization, civilian life juxtaposed with soldiers going to war and dying.

However, they recognized in missionary monks the bearers of a new faith and preservers of a higher civilization.

Billie Holiday's plaintive tones show up on the soundtrack, a touch of melancholy high civilization amid the mayhem.

During that time, the Urartians seem to have eagerly absorbed or imitated the amenities of Assyria's higher civilization.

Third, between 1000 and 1500 ce the area was intermediate between the major centres of high civilization in Mexico and Peru.

As one of the people Isaacs interviewed remarked, "One feels that a people who have evolved such food must have high qualities and a high civilization".