I think not as I look at the
evolution of civilized man seems to follow a very consistant pattern of constant impovement at some level.
I've seen the light, OD «y, and it don't bother me one tiny bit to tell you that s - s marriage is a pseudo union, not approved by God - anywhere - and proven time and time and time again to be the
downfall of civilized man.
In the
astronomy of civilized man, careful observation, intelligent generalization, and accurate prediction played a large and impressive role.
However, it is in the description of axial man and
not of civilized man in general that the discussion of freedom and individuality belongs.
Just as before the rise of civilization, those factors which went into the
making of civilized man were already present without gaining adequate expression to alter man's basic situation, so during the course of civilization, those factors arose which went into the making of axial man without transforming the basic character of civilized existence.
She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil
wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»
There is a natural and uncontrollable tendency on the
part of civilized men to get up picnics and barbecues.