Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Since the beginning of civilization humans have altered our environment and its biology to allow our civilization to thrive - from domesticating plants and animals to building shelter and tools from living organisms.
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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.