By the mid-eighteenth century, Paris's intellectuals had erected a standard of civilization for others to follow.
Now, in the 1930s, people equated the gold standard with civilization itself, and were willing to sacrifice their economies for it.
The Greeks colonized southern Italy and Sicily from the later 7th century bce, but it was the Etruscans who introduced a high standard of civilization, in the previous century, to the central region of the peninsula.
Consider the following statement: Immigration "is bringing to the country people whom it is very difficult to assimilate and who do not promise well for the standard of civilization in the United States". The speaker was not Donald Trump on the campaign trail but Massachusetts Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge in 1891.
The assumption that one is not being recorded in any real way, a standard in civilization for more or less all of history, is being overturned.
The Western countries, who dictated the treaties in the aftermath of the First World War, saw minority safeguards as unnecessary for themselves, and trusted that they could fulfill the "standard of civilization".
"This is about whether the government is conducting itself according to the basic minimum standards of civilization".
"The argument that the Taliban is appalling, therefore it doesn't matter how we treat them, is degrading to our own claim to be upholding the standards of civilization".
Although she had the material for a gripping disaster story, Dr. Fink has slowed the narrative pulse to investigate situational ethics: what happens when caregivers steeped in medicine's supreme value, preserving life, face traumatic choices as the standards of civilization collapse.
Nevertheless, not little does this traditional heritage, even being measured by today's standards of civilization, are considered to present ideas and a high level of goodness.
