CIVILIZATION — What is it?
 You read a lot about civilization in books, magazines and newspapers and you hear orators rave over it, but you are never told just what it is or why it should be praised.
 They tell you that it is far better to be a civilized creature than to be a savage or a barbarian.
 Now, I was born with an inquirative mind and when they told me these bull stories I wanted to know — WHY?
 If my teacher could not give me a good The Original Benefactor reason for what she told me when I was a schoolboy I did not take what she said seriously. It made no difference what book she quoted it from, it had to be sensible or I rejected it.
 So when they told me that I was much better off to have been born a civilized being than to have been born a savage, I wanted to know — WHY?
 So I said, “I will investigate the matter and find out whether I want to be a civilized creature or not.”
 Before you can understand a subject you’ve got to get to the roots of it. You’ve got to know the base upon which it stands or you can’t understand it.
 So you’ve got to get to the base of civiliza-