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 : It is not due to any peculiar fault of the English people, but the condition is due to modern civilisation. It is a civilisation only in name. Under it the nations of Europe are becoming degraded and ruined day by day.




 * Now you will have to explain what you mean by civilisation.


 * It is not a question of what I mean. Several English writers refuse to call that, civilisation which passes under that name. Many books have been written upon that subject. Societies have been formed to cure the nation of the evils of civilisation. A great English writer has written a work called "Civilisation: its Cause and Cure." Therein he has called it a disease.


 * Why do we not know this generally?
 * The answer is very simple. We rarely find people arguing against themselves. Those who are intoxicated by modern civilisation are not likely to write against it. Their