Civilization

Définition et enjeux

Congrès international des orientalistes,  Transactions of the second session of the international Congress of Orientalists… (1876)

“ What evidence, not merely faith-exciting but knowledge-giving, have we of the earliest manifestation of Assyrian or Semitic civilization—that is to say, of literature, architectural and sculptural art, established ritualistic religion, priest and warrior castes, administrative officials-parallel in time with the evidence of such which Egypt has yielded? The Hycksos kings, in the course of their 500 years' usurpation of the delta, accepted the civilization, the arts, and, in part, the religion, of the higher race which they had partially subdued. ”
Source : Gallica

comte de Premio-Real,  Saint-Pierre & Miquelon

“ There, are to be found none of those dreadful cases of hardship, those famine-stricken creatures which exist in large centres of population, in the very midst of all the resources of civilization.
The hardy and weather beaten seamen, have never any cause to dread famine. A constantly renewed manna is ever rising from the depths of the sea. It would seem as if God wished to show his power and point out to man the vanity of worldly wealth by causing life and natural riches to teem along these shores which, at first sight, seem devoted but to misery and death.
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Source : Gutenberg

Portrait de François Guizot François Guizot,  Histoire générale de la civilisation en Europe

“ La civilisation m’a paru consister dans deux faits principaux : le développement de la société humaine et celui de l’homme lui-même ; d’une part, le développement politique et social, de l’autre, le développement intérieur, moral. Je me suis renfermé cette année dans l’histoire de la société. Je n’ai présenté la civilisation que sous son point de vue social. Je n’ai rien dit du développement de l’homme lui-même. Je n’ai point essayé de vous exposer l’histoire des opinions, du progrès moral de l’humanité. ”
Source : Wikisource

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