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
Tag: Cultural history
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
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
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