Progressive Civilization
Audio File Economics, society, and government must evolve if they are to remain. Static conditions on an evolutionary world are indicative of decay; only those institutions which move forward … Read More
Tag: Civilization
Factors in Social Progression
Audio File Civilized society is the result of man’s early efforts to overcome his dislike of isolation. But this does not necessarily signify mutual affection, and the present turbulent … Read More
Marriage and Family Life
Paper 84 – Marriage and Family Life 84:0:1 (931.1) MATERIAL necessity founded Marriage, sex hunger embellished it, religion sanctioned and exalted it, the state demanded and regulated it, while in … 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
Religion and the Religionist
Audio File Early Christianity was entirely free from all civil entanglements, social commitments, and economic alliances. Only did later institutionalized Christianity become an organic part of the political and … Read More
The Maintenance of Civilization
Audio File While biologic evolution has proceeded ever upward, much of cultural evolution went out from the Euphrates valley in waves, which successively weakened as time passed until finally … Read More
The Genesis of War
Audio File War is the natural state and heritage of evolving man; peace is the social yardstick measuring civilization’s advancement. Before the partial socialization of the advancing races man … 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
Dawn of Chinese Civilization
Audio File Sometime after driving the red man across to North America, the expanding Chinese cleared the Andonites from the river valleys of eastern Asia, pushing them north into … Read More
Progressive Civilization
Audio File The progress of civilization is hardly alike on any two planets. The details of the unfoldment of mortal evolution are very different on numerous dissimilar worlds. Notwithstanding … Read More
The Dawn of Civilization
Audio File This is the beginning of the narrative of the long, long forward struggle of the human species from a status that was little better than an animal … Read More