Growth of civilization

One of the things that was implicitly or explicitly recognized during the past many years is that the human mind works in different ways, and that it is capable of creating a comprehensive culture by responding to the action of the environment automatically, instead of gradually in slow, arduous steps from one stage to another. It has often been said that the great civilizations... An independent product of isolated development, you see us talking, for example, about the civilization of Mexico, China, or India, and we often mean that this or that civilization is a civilization that belongs to that particular country and no other.
The main topic of this book is that civilization is an independent thing that has its own way of progressing, and our horizon of vision must be broadened as much as possible in order to understand how civilization is established and to understand the idea of ​​its growth. Civilization cannot be characterized by stability and constancy, but rather is exposed from time to time to disturbances such as these. Which finally struck us. One of the most difficult tasks for those who study society is to determine the causes that lead to these disturbances. Major societies have often disappeared in past ages, and these events were on a scale so vast that they called for recognition that there is a law of growth and annihilation to which all social beings are subject.