I'd make sure to leave those books out (religious texts as well)...
Other civilizations have got by just fine without them, and maybe without tainting influences, the survivors will do better next time.
Other civilizations have got by just fine without them, and maybe without tainting influences, the survivors will do better next time.
E.g. too many of these things require fixed assets and a framework where nomadic raiders are kept from totally despoiling those and the people working on them, the classic example being agriculture and farmers. Sans that, you might have something called "civilization", but it won't support very many people, and it won't be pretty. Or you might collapse all the way down to small, hostile to each other bands of hunter-gatherers. I seem to remember reading in Guns, Germs and Steel that the Australian aborigines came from a civilization that farmed....
The paints 'civilized law' as authoritarian, vengance based, and using primitive means to try to alter behavior.