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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Civilization Command Course Distinguished His History Man Outward Preoccupation Sense Superiority Thread Western Western Civilization

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He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Although Civilization Danger Gigantic He Midst Multitudes Nations Oppression Paradox Peace People Pledged Plenty Preparing See Starving War Would

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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Abandoned Anarchy Civilization Clear Cost Four Human Human Suffering Imagine International Led Limited Minds Must Our Realization Suffering Survive To Survive Too Very War Which World World War Years

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I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Anarchy Believe Civilization Competitive Consider Democracy Economic Enterprise Essential International Nationalism Rent Survive Values Western Which World

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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Become Civilization Clearly Collapse History Led More Revealed Studied The History Of Those Tragic Up Vast War World World War Years

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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

~Arthur Henderson

Topics: Civilization Destroy Either Forces Heights Human Mankind Motion Prosperity Raise Set Upheaval Vast War Welfare Will World World War

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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

~Arthur Holly Compton

Topics: Achievement Also Civilization Cooperation Implicit Make Moral Philosopher Religious Science Scientist Source Strength Teacher Will

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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

~Arthur Keith

Topics: Against Anti Ascent Christianity Civilization Conditions Earlier Effects Evolutionary Find Laws Like Man Shall Stages Which Works

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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

Topics: Another Back Becoming Body Breeding Bringing Changing Civilization Complicated Country Cupboard Desires Evolving Experience Exploiting Falling Fresh Mind More Nature Never New One Country Satisfaction Stands Still

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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.

~Arthur Keith

Topics: Because Becoming Changing Civilization Complicated Define Difficult Ever Evolving Experts Explicit Find Just Just Because More Terms

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