Studies of state civilizations might focus on Chinese or Arabic math concepts.
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.
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).
A claim against the common stock that all may make, on the ground that 'no person ought to be in a worse condition when born under what is called a state of civilization, than he would have been had he been born in a state of nature…' (I, 613).
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.
One of the most unchallenged, zany assertions during the war on terror has been that terrorists present an existential threat to the United States, the modern state and civilization itself.
My father experienced his first religious doubts at the age of twelve, when he discovered Bergson and Comte in an Adana bookstore, and read that religion was part of a primitive and pre-scientific state of civilization; he has been an atheist since his teens.
"I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding States between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good — a positive good".
