Sentence examples for state of civilization from inspiring English sources

Although he adopted the pessimistic view of the state of civilization held by Schopenhauer, he modified it with Hegel's optimistic outlook for the future of mankind.

As Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be".

He also noted that some of the faculties that are strongest in women "are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a past and lower state of civilization".

"The state of civilization about New York in the year 2015 will resemble very closely that of England in the early days of the Saxon settlement," the paper declared on June 30th of that year.

You can despair of the state of civilization or decide, in spite of abundant evidence to the contrary, that its codes and customs still exist and that you will defend them.

As it is undeniable that portions of the human family have existed in a state of savagery, other portions in a state of barbarism, and still other portions in a state of civilization, it seems equally so that these three distinct conditions are connected with each other in a natural as well as necessary sequence of progress (Ancient Society, 1877).

Yet it might be that some very ancient language had altered little, and had given rise to few new languages, whilst others (owing to the spreading and subsequent isolation and states of civilization of the several races, descended from a common race) had altered much, and had given rise to many new languages and dialects.

Indeed, The Revenant draws on Cooper's six-related Leatherstocking novels and on the contours of its main character, Natty Bumppo, whom the nineteenth-century French novelist, Honore Balzac, praised as "a magnificent moral hermaphrodite, born of the savage state and of civilization".

The film is an 87-minute essay in images and sound on the state of American civilization.

Like the real shooter, Marc Lepine, who killed 14 women on Dec. 6, 1989, Mr. Villeneuve's fictional perpetrator is motivated by rage against feminism, which he blames for both his own unspecified problems and for the sorry state of modern civilization.

Of course we all need cash to live in the current state of human civilization.