If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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.
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.