civilization
noun
an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.
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The causes of it must, therefore, be sought in the artificial modes of living peculiar to our hypercivilization and in the unnatural methods of treating disease as commonly practiced.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr