Civilisation Flashcards
Chapter 1
'’Sees to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.’’
Chapter 4
‘There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.’
Chapter 4
‘Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.’
Chapter 5
‘The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.’
Chapter 10
‘What could be safer than the bus and center with its lamps and wheels?’
Chapter 11
'’Which is better – to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?’’
Chapter 12
“I should have thought that a pack of British boys…would have been able to put up a better show than that.”