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71:1.1 The [[state]] is a territorial [[social]] [[regulative]] [[organization]], and the strongest, most [[efficient]], and [[enduring]] [[state]] is [[composed]] of a single nation whose [[people]] have a common [[language]], [[mores]], and [[institutions]].
71:1.2 The early states were small and were all the result of [[conquest]]. They did not [[originate]] in [[voluntary]] [[associations]]. Many were founded by [[conquering]] [[nomads]], who would swoop down on [[peaceful]] herders or settled [[agriculturists]] to overpower and [[enslave]] them. Such states, resulting from [[conquest]], were, perforce, stratified; classes were [[inevitable]], and [[class]] [[struggles]] have ever been selective.
71:1.3 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States northern tribes] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:7._DISPERSION_OF_THE_COLORED_RACES American red men] never [[attained]] real statehood. They never [[progressed]] beyond a loose [[confederation]] of [[tribes]], a very [[primitive]] [[form]] of [[state]]. Their nearest approach was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Iroquois federation], but this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois#Grand_Council group of six nations] never quite [[functioned]] as a state and failed to [[survive]] because of the [[absence]] of certain [[essentials]] to [[modern]] national life, such as:
*1. 71:1.4 Acquirement and inheritance of [[private]] [[property]].
*2. 71:1.5 [[Cities]] plus [[agriculture]] and [[industry]].
*3. 71:1.6 Helpful domestic [[animals]].
*4. 71:1.7 [[Practical]] [[family]] [[organization]]. These red men clung to the [[Matriarchy|mother-family]] and nephew inheritance.
*5. 71:1.8 Definite territory.
*6. 71:1.9 A strong [[executive]] head.
*7. 71:1.10 [[Enslavement]] of captives—they either [[adopted]] or massacred them.
*8. 71:1.11 Decisive [[conquests]].
71:1.12 The red men were too [[democratic]]; they had a [[good]] [[government]], but it failed. [[Eventually]] they would have evolved a [[state]] had they not prematurely encountered the more advanced [[civilization]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_80#80:9._THE_THREE_WHITE_RACES white man], who was pursuing the governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans.
71:1.13 The successful [[Roman]] [[state]] was based on:
*1. The [[Patriarchy|father-family]].
*2. [[Agriculture]] and the [[domestication]] of [[animals]].
*3. Condensation of [[population]]—[[cities]].
*4. [[Private]] [[property]] and [[land]].
*5. [[Slavery]]—[[classes]] of [[citizenship]].
*6. [[Conquest]] and reorganization of weak and backward peoples.
*7. Definite territory with roads.
*8. [[Personal]] and strong rulers.
71:1.14 The great weakness in [[Roman]] [[civilization]], and a factor in the ultimate collapse of the [[empire]], was the supposed [[liberal]] and advanced provision for the [[emancipation]] of the [[Male|boy]] at twenty-one and the unconditional release of the [[Female|girl]] so that she was at [[liberty]] to [[marry]] a man of her own choosing or to go abroad in the [[land]] to become immoral. The [[harm]] to [[society]] consisted not in these reforms themselves but rather in the sudden and extensive [[manner]] of their [[adoption]]. The collapse of [[Rome]] indicates what may be expected when a [[state]] undergoes too rapid extension [[associated]] with internal [[degeneration]].
71:1.15 The embryonic [[state]] was made possible by the decline of the [[Genetic|blood bond]] in favor of the [[Property|territorial]], and such [[tribal]] federations were usually firmly cemented by [[conquest]]. While a [[sovereignty]] that [[transcends]] all minor [[struggles]] and [[group]] [[differences]] is the characteristic of the true [[state]], still, many [[classes]] and [[castes]] persist in the later [[state]] [[organizations]] as remnants of the [[clans]] and [[tribes]] of former days. The later and larger territorial states had a long and bitter [[struggle]] with these smaller consanguineous [[clan]] [[groups]], the tribal [[government]] proving a valuable [[transition]] from [[family]] to [[state]] [[authority]]. During later times many clans grew out of trades and other [[industrial]] [[associations]].
71:1.16 [[Failure]] of [[state]] [[integration]] results in retrogression to prestate conditions of [[governmental]] [[techniques]], such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism feudalism] of the European [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]. During these dark ages the territorial state collapsed, and there was a reversion to the small castle [[groups]], the reappearance of the [[clan]] and [[tribal]] [[stages]] of [[development]]. Similar semistates even now exist in Asia and Africa, but not all of them are [[evolutionary]] reversions; many are the embryonic [[nucleus]]es of [[states]] of the [[future]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_71 Go to Paper 71]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 71 - Development of the State]]
71:1.1 The [[state]] is a territorial [[social]] [[regulative]] [[organization]], and the strongest, most [[efficient]], and [[enduring]] [[state]] is [[composed]] of a single nation whose [[people]] have a common [[language]], [[mores]], and [[institutions]].
71:1.2 The early states were small and were all the result of [[conquest]]. They did not [[originate]] in [[voluntary]] [[associations]]. Many were founded by [[conquering]] [[nomads]], who would swoop down on [[peaceful]] herders or settled [[agriculturists]] to overpower and [[enslave]] them. Such states, resulting from [[conquest]], were, perforce, stratified; classes were [[inevitable]], and [[class]] [[struggles]] have ever been selective.
71:1.3 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States northern tribes] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:7._DISPERSION_OF_THE_COLORED_RACES American red men] never [[attained]] real statehood. They never [[progressed]] beyond a loose [[confederation]] of [[tribes]], a very [[primitive]] [[form]] of [[state]]. Their nearest approach was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Iroquois federation], but this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois#Grand_Council group of six nations] never quite [[functioned]] as a state and failed to [[survive]] because of the [[absence]] of certain [[essentials]] to [[modern]] national life, such as:
*1. 71:1.4 Acquirement and inheritance of [[private]] [[property]].
*2. 71:1.5 [[Cities]] plus [[agriculture]] and [[industry]].
*3. 71:1.6 Helpful domestic [[animals]].
*4. 71:1.7 [[Practical]] [[family]] [[organization]]. These red men clung to the [[Matriarchy|mother-family]] and nephew inheritance.
*5. 71:1.8 Definite territory.
*6. 71:1.9 A strong [[executive]] head.
*7. 71:1.10 [[Enslavement]] of captives—they either [[adopted]] or massacred them.
*8. 71:1.11 Decisive [[conquests]].
71:1.12 The red men were too [[democratic]]; they had a [[good]] [[government]], but it failed. [[Eventually]] they would have evolved a [[state]] had they not prematurely encountered the more advanced [[civilization]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_80#80:9._THE_THREE_WHITE_RACES white man], who was pursuing the governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans.
71:1.13 The successful [[Roman]] [[state]] was based on:
*1. The [[Patriarchy|father-family]].
*2. [[Agriculture]] and the [[domestication]] of [[animals]].
*3. Condensation of [[population]]—[[cities]].
*4. [[Private]] [[property]] and [[land]].
*5. [[Slavery]]—[[classes]] of [[citizenship]].
*6. [[Conquest]] and reorganization of weak and backward peoples.
*7. Definite territory with roads.
*8. [[Personal]] and strong rulers.
71:1.14 The great weakness in [[Roman]] [[civilization]], and a factor in the ultimate collapse of the [[empire]], was the supposed [[liberal]] and advanced provision for the [[emancipation]] of the [[Male|boy]] at twenty-one and the unconditional release of the [[Female|girl]] so that she was at [[liberty]] to [[marry]] a man of her own choosing or to go abroad in the [[land]] to become immoral. The [[harm]] to [[society]] consisted not in these reforms themselves but rather in the sudden and extensive [[manner]] of their [[adoption]]. The collapse of [[Rome]] indicates what may be expected when a [[state]] undergoes too rapid extension [[associated]] with internal [[degeneration]].
71:1.15 The embryonic [[state]] was made possible by the decline of the [[Genetic|blood bond]] in favor of the [[Property|territorial]], and such [[tribal]] federations were usually firmly cemented by [[conquest]]. While a [[sovereignty]] that [[transcends]] all minor [[struggles]] and [[group]] [[differences]] is the characteristic of the true [[state]], still, many [[classes]] and [[castes]] persist in the later [[state]] [[organizations]] as remnants of the [[clans]] and [[tribes]] of former days. The later and larger territorial states had a long and bitter [[struggle]] with these smaller consanguineous [[clan]] [[groups]], the tribal [[government]] proving a valuable [[transition]] from [[family]] to [[state]] [[authority]]. During later times many clans grew out of trades and other [[industrial]] [[associations]].
71:1.16 [[Failure]] of [[state]] [[integration]] results in retrogression to prestate conditions of [[governmental]] [[techniques]], such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism feudalism] of the European [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]. During these dark ages the territorial state collapsed, and there was a reversion to the small castle [[groups]], the reappearance of the [[clan]] and [[tribal]] [[stages]] of [[development]]. Similar semistates even now exist in Asia and Africa, but not all of them are [[evolutionary]] reversions; many are the embryonic [[nucleus]]es of [[states]] of the [[future]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_71 Go to Paper 71]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 71 - Development of the State]]
