The climate and landscape in the Mesopotamia of those times were in every way favorable to the undertakings of the Prince's staff and their assistants, very different from conditions which have sometimes since prevailed. It was [[necessary]] to have such a favoring climate as a part of the natural environment designed to induce primitive Urantians to make certain initial advances in [[culture]] and [[civilization]]. The one great task of those ages was to transform man from a hunter to a herder, with the hope that later on he would evolve into a [[peace]]-loving, [[home]]-abiding farmer. | The climate and landscape in the Mesopotamia of those times were in every way favorable to the undertakings of the Prince's staff and their assistants, very different from conditions which have sometimes since prevailed. It was [[necessary]] to have such a favoring climate as a part of the natural environment designed to induce primitive Urantians to make certain initial advances in [[culture]] and [[civilization]]. The one great task of those ages was to transform man from a hunter to a herder, with the hope that later on he would evolve into a [[peace]]-loving, [[home]]-abiding farmer. |