It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
Interpretation
Civilization is complex and constantly changing, making it hard to define clearly.
Arthur Keith emphasizes that the nature of civilization is inherently fluid and evolving, which complicates any attempts to provide a definitive definition. As societies progress and develop, the increasing complexities and variations in human experiences and structures challenge our understanding and articulation of what civilization truly encompasses.
In practice
In a discussion about the challenges of defining culture in a sociology class.
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.
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