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“I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor's cow breaks out of her...”
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever spilt a man’s blood killed his own mana - hi...”
“Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.”
“I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards ...”
“A civilized society is one that exhibits the five qualities of truth beauty adventure art and peace.”
“We are all afraid - for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement with wh...”
“Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.”
“Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”
“The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.”
“If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.”
“We think our civilization near its meridian but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.”
“Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.”
“Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.”
