Banning browsing before breakfast can reintroduce a modicum of civilisation .
早餐前不看手机可以重建一点文明。
This dynamic is as old as civilisation .
这种动态平衡自出现文明以来一直存在。
Who could have foreseen , when augustine was writing those huge books now translated into chinese , that barbarous europe would become the centre of christian civilisation , and his homeland in north africa would become entirely muslim ?