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We may think and talk about civilization as one pattern or level of culture, one stage through which human life flows and ebbs. In that sense we may regard it abstractly and historically, as we regard the most recent ice age or the long and painful record of large-scale chattel slavery. From quite another viewpoint we may think of civilization as a technologically advanced way of life developed by various peoples through ages of unrecorded experiment and experience, and followed by millions during the period of written history. It is also the way of life that the West has been trying to impose upon the entire. | 1 PART I em The Pageant of Experiments with Civilization em PART II em A Social Analysis of Civilization em PART III em Civilization Is Becoming Obsolete em PART IV em Steps Beyond Civilization em Part I CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE Part II em CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE Part III em CHAPTER TEN Part I em The Part II on CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE Part IV em Civilization and Beyond by Scott Nearing 2 CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN Part II of this study A Social Analysis of CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN Civilization and Beyond by Scott Nearing The Project Gutenberg EBook of Civilization and Beyond by Scott Nearing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Civilization and Beyond Learning From History Author Scott Nearing Release Date May 10 2004 EBook 12320 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CIVILIZATION AND BEYOND Produced by Matthew Mello and PG Distributed Proofreaders Transcriber s note The typographical errors of the original are preserved in this etext. CIVILIZATION AND BEYOND Learning From History By Scott Nearing This book is not copyrighted. It may be reproduced by anybody and distributed in any quantity as a whole. It should not be summarized abbreviated garbled or chopped into out-of-context fragments. Social Science Institute Harborside Maine August 1975 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface INTRODUCTION Thoughts about History and Civilization PART I The Pageant of Experiments with Civilization 3 PART I The Pageant of Experiments with Civilization 1. Experiments in Egypt and Eurasia 2. Rome s Outstanding Experiment 3. The Origins of Western Civilization 4. The Life Cycle of Western .