It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

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.

I am a rank individualist.