The word civilization is used nowadays to describe the social organization and culture of any distinct group of people. However, having grown up under the influence of English humanist social thinkers of the post war years, I tend to associate ‘civilization’ with the word ‘civilized’. In other words, a ‘civilization’ can be ‘civilized’ or ‘uncivilized’.

One day, when I was second year physics student at Cambridge, (more…)