It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
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Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.Arthur Keith
Civilization seeks to suppress all those primitive instincts in man which formed the main part of the machinery of his evolution in earlier times.
Arthur Keith
Force and fear are the driving power behind this regional kind of Universalism. Love and brotherhood have had no part in its spread.
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
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Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
Arthur Keith
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