Sentence examples for which civilizations from inspiring English sources

So you might say gold has considerably sped up the process by which civilizations are created, and in many cases it has paid the bill for it".

Those who followed in Gibbon's wake — Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee are the best known — viewed history as a process of rising and falling, but remained vague on which civilizations were winning and which deserved to lose.

Spengler and Toynbee portrayed human history as a coherent process in which civilizations pass through specific stages of youth, maturity, and senescence.

They are portraits of the abyss, the quagmire from which civilization nonetheless continues to arise.

But it is easy for liberal humanists to pass over the respects in which civilization has retreated.

Some speakers focused on past warm periods in which civilization flourished, and cold periods in which people struggled against famine.

This gave them the charm that Benjamin found in everything discarded and superseded, all the detritus on which civilization imprints its deepest secrets.

Gaps are growing between rich and poor, and we see alarming scarcities of food, fuel and the natural resources on which civilization depends.

The end of the Iliad is, in other words, a narrative about grief yielding to mourning, about the way in which civilization responds to violence and horror.

"There is a delta culture, the last remnant of individualism in California, on which civilization's extended umbrella is closing in," Mr. Jennings said.

Burning all the fossil fuels will destroy the planet we know, Creation, the planet of stable climate in which civilization developed.