Sentences with phrase «ideas of advanced civilizations»

Nearly a half - century later, Jacques Barzun echoed these sentiments in his Mellon Lectures when he said that the artifacts and ideas of advanced civilizations had become a «dreadful clutter,» the antidote to which was to move towards «some form of primitivism.»

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What we are pleased to call Western civilization — and most of the time those who use the phrase intend the culture with which we are familiar, with its ideas and «ideals» of «the good life in community» — seems now to be in an advanced state of disintegration.

Civilization advances because of educated people who create, design, build, engineer, idea - make, invent and so much more.