The Discourse on Spiritual Freedom
Audio File On the afternoon of the last day of the feast and after the apostles had failed in their efforts to persuade him to flee from Jerusalem, Jesus again … Read More
Tag: Anthropology
Primitive Clubs and Secret Societies
Audio File Blood kinship determined the first social groups; association enlarged the kinship clan. Intermarriage was the next step in group enlargement, and the resultant complex tribe was the … Read More
The Recent Flood Stage
Audio File THE AGE OF ADVANCED MAMMALS This period was characterized by the further and rapid evolution of placental mammals, the more progressive forms of mammalian life developing during these … Read More
The Cro-Magnoid Blue Man
Audio File The ancient centers of the culture of the blue man were located along all the rivers of Europe, but only the Somme now flows in the same … Read More
Slavery as a Factor in Civilization
Audio File Primitive man never hesitated to enslave his fellows. Woman was the first slave, a family slave. Pastoral men enslaved woman as his inferior sex partner. This sort … Read More
Private Property
Audio File While primitive society was virtually communal, primitive man did not adhere to the modern doctrines of communism. The communism of these early times was not a mere … Read More
Evolution of Culture
Audio File Man is a creature of the soil, a child of nature; no matter how earnestly he may try to escape from the land, in the last reckoning … Read More
Later Chinese Civilization
Audio File While the red man suffered from too much warfare, it is not altogether amiss to say that the development of statehood among the Chinese was delayed by … Read More
Religion and the Human Race
Audio File While the belief in spirits, dreams, and diverse other superstitions all played a part in the evolutionary origin of primitive religions, you should not overlook the influence … Read More