The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.
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.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
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