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==70:8. SOCIAL CLASSES==

==70:8. SOCIAL CLASSES==

70:8.1 The [[mental]] and [[physical]] inequality of [[human beings]] insures that [[social classes]] will appear. The only worlds without [[social]] [[strata]] are the most [[primitive]] and the most advanced. A dawning [[civilization]] has not yet begun the [[differentiation]] of social levels, while a world settled in [[light and life]] has largely effaced these divisions of [[mankind]], which are so characteristic of all intermediate [[evolutionary]] [[stages]].

70:8.1 The [[mental]] and [[physical]] inequality of [[human beings]] insures that [[social classes]] will appear. The only worlds without [[social]] strata are the most [[primitive]] and the most advanced. A dawning [[civilization]] has not yet begun the [[differentiation]] of social levels, while a world settled in [[light and life]] has largely effaced these divisions of [[mankind]], which are so characteristic of all intermediate [[evolutionary]] [[stages]].

70:8.2 As [[society]] emerged from savagery to [[barbarism]], its [[human]] components tended to become grouped in classes for the following general reasons:

70:8.2 As [[society]] emerged from savagery to [[barbarism]], its [[human]] components tended to become grouped in classes for the following general reasons:

*5. 70:8.7 ''[[Geographic]]'' —classes arose consequent upon [[urban]] or [[rural]] settlement. [[City]] and country have respectively [[contributed]] to the [[differentiation]] of the herder-[[agriculturist]] and the trader-[[industrialist]], with their divergent [[viewpoints]] and [[reactions]].

*5. 70:8.7 ''[[Geographic]]'' —classes arose consequent upon [[urban]] or [[rural]] settlement. [[City]] and country have respectively [[contributed]] to the [[differentiation]] of the herder-[[agriculturist]] and the trader-[[industrialist]], with their divergent [[viewpoints]] and [[reactions]].

*6. 70:8.8 ''[[Social]]'' —classes have [[gradually]] formed according to popular estimate of the [[social]] [[worth]] of [[different]] [[groups]]. Among the earliest divisions of this sort were the demarcations between [[priest]]-[[teachers]], ruler-[[warriors]], [[capitalist]]-traders, common laborers, and [[slaves]]. The slave could never become a capitalist, though sometimes the wage earner could elect to join the [[capitalistic]] ranks.

*6. 70:8.8 ''[[Social]]'' —classes have [[gradually]] formed according to popular estimate of the [[social]] [[worth]] of [[different]] [[groups]]. Among the earliest divisions of this sort were the demarcations between [[priest]]-[[teachers]], ruler-[[warriors]], [[capitalist]]-traders, common laborers, and [[slaves]]. The slave could never become a capitalist, though sometimes the wage earner could elect to join the [[capitalistic]] ranks.

*7. 70:8.9 ''[[Vocational]]'' —as vocations multiplied, they tended to [[establish]] [[castes]] and [[guilds]]. Workers divided into [[three]] [[groups]]: the [[professional]] classes, including the [[medicine men]], then the [[skill]]ed workers, followed by the [[Manual|unskilled]] laborers.

*7. 70:8.9 ''[[Vocational]]'' —as vocations multiplied, they tended to [[establish]] [[castes]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/Guilds guilds]. Workers divided into [[three]] [[groups]]: the [[professional]] classes, including the [[medicine men]], then the [[skill]]ed workers, followed by the unskilled laborers.

*8. 70:8.10 ''[[Religious]]'' —the early [[cult]] clubs produced their own classes within the [[clans]] and [[tribes]], and the [[piety]] and [[mysticism]] of the [[priests]] have long perpetuated them as a separate [[social]] [[group]].

*8. 70:8.10 ''[[Religious]]'' —the early [[cult]] clubs produced their own classes within the [[clans]] and [[tribes]], and the [[piety]] and [[mysticism]] of the [[priests]] have long perpetuated them as a separate [[social]] [[group]].

*9. 70:8.11 ''[[Racial]]'' —the [[presence]] of two or more [[races]] within a given [[nation]] or territorial unit usually produces [[color]] [[castes]]. The [[original]] [[caste]] system of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#Culture India] was based on [[color]], as was that of early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt].

*9. 70:8.11 ''[[Racial]]'' —the [[presence]] of two or more [[races]] within a given [[nation]] or territorial unit usually produces [[color]] [[castes]]. The [[original]] [[caste]] system of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#Culture India] was based on [[color]], as was that of early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt Egypt].