civilization

He had called the Civil Rights Act a mistake and recently tweeted that “Islam is not compatible with western civilization.”

Given the twin menaces of global warming and pandemic threats, “the reality, now, is that human civilization is in actual grave danger.”

Holmes’ words were a quintessential expression of “eugenics,” a pseudoscientific notion that social problems can be alleviated by focusing on heredity, and sequestering, forcibly sterilizing or even murdering those whose genetic heritage jeopardizes civilization.

"So I think human civilization has an element of that too, and we will scrape through."

Such lessons not only open up the magical world of mountain vistas, but they also teach responsibility and self reliance back in civilization.