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CIVILIZATIOn quotes
Here is the element or power of conduct, of intellect and knowledge, of beauty, and of social life and manners, and all needful to build up a complete human life.—We have instincts responding to them all, and requiring them all, and we are perfectly civilized only when all these instincts of our nature—all these elements in our civilization have been adequately recognized and satisfied.
With Christianity came a new civilization and a new order of ideas.—Tastes were cultivated, manners refined, views broadened, and natures spiritualized.
Civilization is the upward struggle of mankind, in which millions are trampled to death that thousands may mount on their bodies.
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
The ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of the lowest.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
A sufficient and sure method of civilization is the influence of good women.
The post office, with its educating energy, augmented by cheapness, and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind, so that the power of a wafer, or a drop of wax guards a letter, as it flies over sea and land, and bears it to its address as if a battalion of artillery had brought it, I look upon as a first measure of civilization.
The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone.—And as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries, the most civilized in the days of Augustus, are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.
More than one of the strong nations may shortly have to choose between a selfish secular civilization, whose God is science, and an unselfish civilization whose Cod is Christ.
If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
Nations, like individuals, live or die, but civilization cannot perish.
The old Hindoo saw, in his dream, the human race led out to its various fortunes.—First, men were in chains, that went back to an iron hand—then he saw them led by threads from the brain, which went upward to an unseen hand. The first was despotism, iron, and ruling by force.—The last was civilization, ruling by ideas.
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism, as the most polished steel is to rust.—Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
In order to civilize a people, it is necessary first to fix it, and this cannot be done without inducing it to cultivate the soil.
All that is best in the civilization of today, is the fruit of Christ's appearance among men.
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