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When we realize clearly this possibility of civilizations being based on very different sets of moral ideas and upon different intellectual methods, we are better able to appreciate the profound significance of the schism in our modern community, which gives us side by side, honest and intelligent people who regard Birth Control as something essentially sweet, sane, clean, desirable and necessary, and others equally honest and with as good a claim to intelligence who regard it as not merely unreasonable and unwholesome, but as intolerable and abominable.
Were you persuasive enough to convince two star-spanning civilizations to cease ten years of hostility just with words? Is any mortal?" Tarlac shook his head. "I'm an operator, not much of a diplomat Linda's the expert at that, and I don't think even she could bring that one off." He looked at them speculatively, then nodded. "I guess I do understand, at that.
More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions, and some fine day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why?
"What?" inquired Kranitski. "The fair at Chicago." And he read aloud an account of the preparations for the colossal exhibition which was to be in that American city. He accompanied the reading with judgments which contained comparisons: The old part of the world the old civilizations, the old common methods and proceedings. Besides narrow spaces, familiar horizons too familiar.
French conventions, however, have a specious air of liberality, and France offers to him who will be bound by them partnership in the most perfect of modern civilizations a civilization, be it noted, of which her conventions are themselves an expression. The bribe is tempting. Also, the pill itself is pleasantly coated.
In order to make this point clear, it will be worth while to dwell for a moment on the historical origins of the two civilizations. Western Europe and America have a practically homogeneous mental life, which I should trace to three sources: Greek culture; Jewish religion and ethics; modern industrialism, which itself is an outcome of modern science.
I used to wonder why Paul, passing through all the grandest cities and civilizations of his times, never left behind him a single description of any of their glories, only a reference to the altar to An Unknown God that he found in Athens; but now I know. Paul lost the memory of sight. He had absent-minded eyes to the things of the world. So it is with the itinerant.
This study was laid out along inductive lines: an examination of the facts with such generalizations as the facts suggest or justify. We began our social analysis of civilization by presenting noteworthy facts concerning the politics, economics, and sociology of various civilizations. In the present chapter we deal with their ideologies.
Etruria and Rome were naturally limited regions. Civilizations have taken place at both the eastern and western extremities of the elder continent China and Japan, on the one hand; Germany, Holland, Britain, France, on the other while the great unmarked tract between contains nations decidedly less advanced.
Such races and civilizations cannot rise to the highest levels of which man is capable; they must of necessity give way to those races and that civilization which build on larger and more complete foundations, which worship Will, Human and Divine, and seek for its larger development both in self and in all mankind. But I must not pause to trace the contrasts further.
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