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68:1.1 When brought closely [[together]], [[men]] often learn to like one another, but [[primitive]] man was not naturally overflowing with the [[spirit]] of [[brotherly]] [[feeling]] and the [[desire]] for [[social]] [[contact]] with his fellows. Rather did the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 early races] [[learn]] by sad [[experience]] that "in [[union]] there is [[strength]]"; and it is this lack of [[natural]] [[brotherly]] [[attraction]] that now stands in the way of [[immediate]] [[realization]] of the brotherhood of man on [[Urantia]].

68:1.1 When brought closely [[together]], [[men]] often learn to like one another, but [[primitive]] man was not naturally overflowing with the [[spirit]] of [[brotherly]] [[feeling]] and the [[desire]] for [[social]] [[contact]] with his fellows. Rather did the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 early races] [[learn]] by sad [[experience]] that "in [[union]] there is [[strength]]"; and it is this lack of [[natural]] [[brotherly]] [[attraction]] that now stands in the way of [[immediate]] [[realization]] of the brotherhood of man on [[Urantia]].

68:1.2 [[Association]] early became the price of [[survival]]. The lone man was helpless unless he bore a [[tribal]] mark which [[testified]] that he belonged to a [[group]] which would certainly avenge any [[assault]] made upon him. Even in the days of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain Cain][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:2._CAIN_AND_ABEL] it was fatal to go abroad alone without some mark of [[group]] [[association]]. [[Civilization]] has become man's insurance against [[violent]] [[death]], while the premiums are paid by submission to [[society]]'s numerous [[law]] demands.

68:1.2 [[Association]] early became the price of [[survival]]. The lone man was helpless unless he bore a [[tribal]] mark which [[testified]] that he belonged to a [[group]] which would certainly avenge any [[assault]] made upon him. Even in the days of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain Cain][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:2._CAIN_AND_ABEL] it was fatal to go abroad alone without some mark of [[group]] [[association]]. [[Civilization]] has become man's insurance against [[violent]] [[death]], while the premiums are paid by submission to [[society]]'s numerous [[law]] demands.

68:1.3 [[Primitive]] [[society]] was thus founded on the [[reciprocity]] of [[necessity]] and on the enhanced safety of [[association]]. And [[human]] [[society]] has evolved in agelong [[cycles]] as a result of this [[isolation]] [[fear]] and by means of reluctant [[co-operation]].

68:1.3 [[Primitive]] [[society]] was thus founded on the [[reciprocity]] of [[necessity]] and on the enhanced safety of [[association]]. And [[human]] [[society]] has evolved in agelong [[cycles]] as a result of this [[isolation]] [[fear]] and by means of reluctant [[co-operation]].

68:1.5 The peoples who thus early [[organized]] themselves into a [[primitive]] [[society]] became more successful in their attacks on [[nature]] as well as in [[defense]] against their fellows; they [[possessed]] greater [[survival]] [[possibilities]]; hence has [[civilization]] steadily [[progressed]] on [[Urantia]], notwithstanding its many setbacks. And it is only because of the enhancement of [[survival]] [[value]] in [[association]] that man's many blunders have thus far failed to stop or destroy [[human]] [[civilization]].

68:1.5 The peoples who thus early [[organized]] themselves into a [[primitive]] [[society]] became more successful in their attacks on [[nature]] as well as in [[defense]] against their fellows; they [[possessed]] greater [[survival]] [[possibilities]]; hence has [[civilization]] steadily [[progressed]] on [[Urantia]], notwithstanding its many setbacks. And it is only because of the enhancement of [[survival]] [[value]] in [[association]] that man's many blunders have thus far failed to stop or destroy [[human]] [[civilization]].

68:1.6 That contemporary [[cultural]] [[society]] is a rather recent [[phenomenon]] is well shown by the present-day [[survival]] of such [[primitive]] [[social]] conditions as characterize the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aborigines Australian natives] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmen Bushmen] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmies Pygmies] of Africa. Among these backward peoples may be [[observed]] something of the early [[group]] hostility, [[personal]] [[suspicion]], and other highly antisocial traits which were so characteristic of all [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive races]. These miserable remnants of the nonsocial peoples of ancient times bear [[eloquent]] [[testimony]] to the [[fact]] that the [[natural]] [[individual]]istic tendency of man cannot successfully [[compete]] with the more [[potent]] and [[powerful]] [[organizations]] and [[associations]] of [[social]] [[progression]]. These backward and suspicious antisocial races that speak a [[different]] dialect every forty or fifty miles [[illustrate]] what a world you might now be living in but for the combined [[teaching]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]] and the later labors of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamic group] of racial uplifters.

68:1.6 That contemporary [[cultural]] [[society]] is a rather recent [[phenomenon]] is well shown by the present-day [[survival]] of such [[primitive]] [[social]] conditions as characterize the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aborigines Australian natives] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmen Bushmen] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmies Pygmies] of Africa. Among these backward peoples may be [[observed]] something of the early [[group]] hostility, [[personal]] [[suspicion]], and other highly antisocial traits which were so characteristic of all [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN primitive races]. These miserable remnants of the nonsocial peoples of ancient times bear [[eloquent]] [[testimony]] to the [[fact]] that the [[natural]] [[individual]]istic tendency of man cannot successfully [[compete]] with the more [[potent]] and [[powerful]] [[organizations]] and [[associations]] of [[social]] [[progression]]. These backward and suspicious antisocial races that speak a [[different]] dialect every forty or fifty miles [[illustrate]] what a world you might now be living in but for the combined [[teaching]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]] and the later labors of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamic group] of racial uplifters.

68:1.7 The modern phrase, "back to [[nature]]," is a [[delusion]] of [[ignorance]], a [[belief]] in the [[reality]] of the onetime fictitious "golden age." The only basis for the [[legend]] of the golden age is the historic [[fact]] of [[Dalamatia]] and [[Eden]]. But these improved [[societies]] were far from the [[realization]] of [[utopian]] [[dreams]].

68:1.7 The modern phrase, "back to [[nature]]," is a [[delusion]] of [[ignorance]], a [[belief]] in the [[reality]] of the onetime fictitious "golden age." The only basis for the [[legend]] of the golden age is the historic [[fact]] of [[Dalamatia]] and [[Eden]]. But these improved [[societies]] were far from the [[realization]] of [[utopian]] [[dreams]].

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[[Category:Paper 68 - The Dawn of Civilization]]

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