Sentence examples for stage of civilization from inspiring English sources

Much of Grillparzer's most mature thought forms the basis of the third play, Libussa, in which he foresees human development beyond the rationalist stage of civilization.

"Libya was there through practically every stage of civilization," said Salem al-Maghreby, a resident of the old city who helped found the preservation movement.

"Translation is a more advanced stage of civilization," Borges insisted — or, depending on the translation you come across, "a more advanced stage of writing".

Clarifying as usual (despite that I don't think our best bet is to become all consuming machines to keep the economy going. We ought to invent something different at our stage of civilization).

But recently, with the well-deserved collapse of Marxism, it has begun to seem that the highest stage of civilization we humans can aspire to is global capitalism leavened by some version of a bureaucratic welfare state, all governed badly by an unwieldy and corrupt representative democracy.

The theory of developmental history, however, modifies this universalism with the notion that these capacities only emerge at a certain stage of civilization.

Tells about the similarities, including the three stages of civilization and the opening sentences of "Creating a New Civilization" and "The Communist Manifesto".

Although people of all countries, eras, and stages of civilization have developed myths that explain the existence and workings of natural phenomena, recount the deeds of gods or heroes, or seek to justify social or political institutions, the myths of the Greeks have remained unrivaled in the Western world as sources of imaginative and appealing ideas.

Digging into the oldest layer of ruins uncovered so far, archaeologists found traces of people living in villages at the site as early as 4000 B.C. Within 300 years, the settlement had grown into a prosperous town of at least 32 acres with ample evidence of a well-organized society of the kind associated with the early stages of civilization.

Modern people, he wrote, are "vacillating, disintegrated, a blend of old and new.... My souls (characters) are conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul".

Although I might reasonably argue that rats grade higher than cockroaches on the human scale of animal tolerability, they're clearly below crows, bats, and even pigeons, and musophobia dates back to the earliest stages of civilization, when rats first crept into grain silos and contaminated food supplies.