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Western civilization   /wˈɛstərn sˌɪvəlɪzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Western civilization

noun
1.
The modern culture of western Europe and North America.  Synonym: Western culture.






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"Western civilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... go round, and was told of coming inventions that would turn them faster still. All these and many more such things passed in vision before him; but nothing stirred his admiration, nothing provoked his envy, nothing disturbed his fixed belief that Western civilization was an air-born bubble and a consummation ...
— Mad Shepherds - and Other Human Studies • L. P. Jacks

... of Shakespeare), are a branch of the Sclav race, their language differing but little from that of the Russians, Czechs (Bohemians), Servians, Bulgarians, and other kindred remnants. Contact and co-operation with Western civilization, and escape from Tartar subjugation, permitted the Poles to work out their own development on lines so widely apart from those pursued by their Russian brethren, that the complete amalgamation of these two great Sclav branches has long been a matter ...
— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various

... the backward peoples of the earth that they are adopting the forms and methods of education which have made Western civilization the touch-stone of the ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... sections in the populous centres of western civilization where the destruction of species, even to the point of extermination, is fairly inevitable. It is the way of Christian man to destroy all wild life that comes within the sphere of influence of his iron heel. With the exception of the big game, this destruction is largely ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... humanity, for the glory of God and the advancement of His kingdom on earth, your country calls upon you to stand by her through good report and through evil report, in triumph and in defeat, until she emerges from the great war of Western civilization, Queen of the broad continent, arbitress in the councils of earth's emancipated peoples; until the flag that fell from the wall of Fort Sumter floats again inviolate, supreme, over all her ancient inheritance, every fortress, every capital, every ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick


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