Sentence examples for state of civilisation from inspiring English sources

The ability of foresight depends on the state of civilisation: the class or race with the most foresight will work most for the future, because a powerful feeling for the future is the main incentive to industry and saving.

The United Kingdom had not supported Ethiopian membership of the League on the grounds that "Ethiopia had not reached a state of civilisation and internal security sufficient to warrant her admission".

"Now it is very remarkable, that among people in a very low stage of civilisation, we find some approach to such a perfect state," he observes.

The existence of large towns seems to be an essential condition of the present state of English civilisation.

All disappoint him, either because they are too fixed on the externals of religious observance or because they fail to recognise the fallen state of Muslim civilisation.

I was about to throw the book in the bin, despairing entirely of the state of modern civilisation, when my children pointed out that I look and sound exactly like Grumpy Cat. So at least I know what I'm getting for Christmas.

Perhaps we will have found a new life among the stars or reached a higher state of virtual civilisation – especially if the recently announced plans to send a couple to Mars by 2018 come to pass.

In this state, all the trappings of civilisation (and especially femininity) are to be loathed and rejected.

Neither do I think it signifies the end of civilisation, or a state of political moral decay.

The book of stories now available is like a latter-day Lord of the Flies, except it describes the work of a modern democratic European state at work in the cradle of civilisation.

So the welfare state, looked upon as a touchstone of civilisation and progress by the left, has a chequered past.