Basic Human Institutions
Audio File All human institutions minister to some social need, past or present, notwithstanding that their overdevelopment unfailingly detracts from the worthwhileness of the individual in that personality is … Read More
Tag: Cultural anthropology
Religion and Social Reconstruction
Audio File Mechanical inventions and the dissemination of knowledge are modifying civilization; certain economic adjustments and social changes are imperative if cultural disaster is to be avoided. This new … Read More
The Legend of Creation
Audio File The story of the creation of our planet in six days was based on the tradition that Adam and Eve had spent just six days in their … Read More
Eternal Reason You are Here!
Audio File God’s eternal mandate to “create a creature in My Image” is the eternal reason you are here! Of the zillions upon zillions of personalities God eternally creates … Read More
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
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
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