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An illustration of this principle is in the fact that, but for the misgiving, she would hardly have asked Simone Gréville what she meant by saying that though she had always supposed the fundamental sex attraction between men and women to be the same in its essentials, in all epochs and in all civilizations, her acquaintance with upper-class American women was leading her to admit a possible exception.
Arrested civilizations are due to the disproportionate and excessive development of one or the other of these principles. Personality, expressing and realizing itself in communal and individual life, in objective and subjective forms, is at once the cause and the goal of progress. Social and psychic evolution are, therefore, in the last analysis, personal processes.
Such a monarchy, especially when the monarch is a woman, as in Holland today, and in England under Victoria, is a fairly acceptable working substitute for a formal republic in old civilizations with inveterate monarchical traditions, absurd as it is in new and essentially democratic States.
Certain islands have become the bases of civilizations, but this is true of only a very small number of many existing islands. Civilizations have flourished in certain climatic zones and not elsewhere. At one historical period civilizations were established in the tropics and semi-tropics. In the present period they are located chiefly in temperate climatic belts.
"Beta has one of the highest civilizations in the Brotherhood!" "But you don't have Lani," she said patiently. "So you must be primitive." "Halstead, Fleming, and Ochsner!" Kennon swore. "Do you believe that?" "Naturally, isn't it obvious? You can't possibly be civilized unless you take responsibility for intelligent life other than your own race.
By a master passion, I mean a passion that is really your master: some appetite which habitually, day in, day out, makes its subjects forget fatigue or danger, and sacrifice their ease to its gratification. That is the kind of hold that curiosity has on the monkeys. Imagine a prehistoric prophet observing these beings, and forecasting what kind of civilizations their descendants would build.
"Behold," he exclaimed, "the invasion of modernity. Even your time-forgotten paradise, Mannering, has its civilizations, then. What an anachronism!" With a cloud of dust behind, and with the sun flashing upon its polished metal parts, a motor car swung into sight, and came rushing towards them. Borrowdean, always a keen observer of trifles, noticed the change in Mannering's face.
There is here nothing to suggest the Doric of Paestum and Selinus, much to recall the megalithic buildings of Syria, and the sculpture of the farther East. The evidence is almost entirely that of pottery discovered on the site. The whole question of the relations of Minoan to Mycenaean art, and of this archaic art to the earlier civilizations of Egypt and Chaldea, is very obscure and uncertain.
"Don't be afraid!" she said. And she objected that peasant women, who never wore stays, had far worse figures than town-bred women. The doctor bitterly inveighed against the Western civilizations because of their contempt for and ignorance of natural beauty. Trublet, born within the shadow of Saint-Sulpice, had gone as a young man to practise in Cairo.
In every civilization final decisions regarding domestic and foreign issues have been made by an appeal to arms. There were laws and legal institutions in many civilizations under which confrontations might have been prevented and armed conflict avoided. Where these legal means failed to provide solutions, contestants turned to armed force as the final arbiter.
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