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Civilization Quotes by Havelock Ellis
- We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
- There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and…
- The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual…
- All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
- The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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