Sentences with phrase «signs of a lost civilization»

The wilderness is appropriately dense with foliage, and the barren towns alongside the riverbanks are stacked with the steel carcasses of automobiles and other tell - tale signs of a lost civilization.

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A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

An archaeologist searches for both treasures and trash — the signs of our earliest ancestors, a lost civilization or our recent past.