Civilizations speak through their arts and technologies...

Civilizations speak through their arts and technologies, through their literature and law, and through the histories of their ideas. Even if civilizations have no minds with which to think, the thoughts arising among the people of a civilization and reflected in their labor and its products may be attributed to the civilization itself.

So, there is a sense, after all, in which civilizations do have tongues, for as the tongue of a man shows what he thinks, so too, the products of a civilization reflect its thoughts. If there is to be dialogue among civilizations, however,