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86:1.1 Aside from the [[natural]] [[worship]] urge, early evolutionary [[religion]] had its [[roots]] of [[origin]] in the human [[experiences]] of [[chance]]—so-called [[luck]], commonplace happenings. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] was a [[food]] [[hunter]]. The results of hunting must ever vary, and this gives certain [[origin]] to those [[experiences]] which man [[interprets]] as good luck and bad luck. Mischance was a great [[factor]] in the lives of men and women who lived constantly on the ragged edge of a precarious and harassed [[existence]].

86:1.1 Aside from the [[natural]] [[worship]] urge, early evolutionary [[religion]] had its [[roots]] of [[origin]] in the human [[experiences]] of [[chance]]—so-called [[luck]], commonplace happenings. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] was a [[food]] [[hunter]]. The results of hunting must ever vary, and this gives certain [[origin]] to those [[experiences]] which man [[interprets]] as good luck and bad luck. Mischance was a great [[factor]] in the lives of men and women who lived constantly on the ragged edge of a precarious and harassed [[existence]].

86:1.2 The [[limited]] [[intellectual]] [[horizon]] of the [[savage]] so [[concentrates]] the [[attention]] upon [[chance]] that luck becomes a constant [[factor]] in his life. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive Urantians] [[struggled]] for [[existence]], not for a [[standard of living]]; they lived lives of [[peril]] in which [[chance]] played an important role. The constant dread of [[unknown]] and unseen calamity hung over these [[savages]] as a cloud of despair which effectively [[eclipsed]] every [[pleasure]]; they lived in constant dread of doing something that would bring bad [[luck]]. [[Superstitious]] [[savages]] always feared a run of good luck; they viewed such good fortune as a certain harbinger of [[calamity]].

86:1.2 The [[limited]] [[intellectual]] [[horizon]] of the [[savage]] so [[concentrates]] the [[attention]] upon [[chance]] that luck becomes a constant [[factor]] in his life. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive Urantians] [[struggled]] for [[existence]], not for a [[standard of living]]; they lived lives of [[peril]] in which [[chance]] played an important role. The constant dread of [[unknown]] and unseen calamity hung over these [[savages]] as a cloud of despair which effectively [[eclipsed]] every [[pleasure]]; they lived in constant dread of doing something that would bring bad [[luck]]. [[Superstitious]] [[savages]] always feared a run of good luck; they viewed such good fortune as a certain harbinger of [[calamity]].

86:1.3 This ever-present dread of bad luck was [[paralyzing]]. Why [[work]] hard and reap bad luck—nothing for something—when one might drift along and encounter good luck—something for nothing? Unthinking men forget good luck—take it for granted—but they [[painfully]] [[remember]] bad luck.

86:1.3 This ever-present dread of bad luck was [[paralyzing]]. Why [[work]] hard and reap bad luck—nothing for something—when one might drift along and encounter good luck—something for nothing? Unthinking men forget good luck—take it for granted—but they [[painfully]] [[remember]] bad luck.

86:1.4 Early man lived in [[uncertainty]] and in constant [[fear]] of [[chance]]—bad luck. Life was an exciting [[game]] of [[chance]]; [[existence]] was a gamble. It is no [[wonder]] that partially civilized people still believe in [[chance]] and evince lingering predispositions to [[gambling]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] alternated between two potent interests: the [[passion]] of getting something for nothing and the [[fear]] of getting nothing for something. And this [[gamble]] of [[existence]] was the main interest and the supreme fascination of the early savage [[mind]].

86:1.4 Early man lived in [[uncertainty]] and in constant [[fear]] of [[chance]]—bad luck. Life was an exciting [[game]] of [[chance]]; [[existence]] was a gamble. It is no [[wonder]] that partially civilized people still believe in [[chance]] and evince lingering predispositions to [[gambling]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:1._PRIMITIVE_MAN Primitive man] alternated between two potent interests: the [[passion]] of getting something for nothing and the [[fear]] of getting nothing for something. And this [[gamble]] of [[existence]] was the main interest and the supreme fascination of the early savage [[mind]].

86:1.5 The later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherds herders] held the same views of [[chance]] and luck, while the still later [[agriculturists]] were increasingly [[conscious]] that crops were immediately [[influenced]] by many things over which man had little or no [[control]]. The [[farmer]] found himself the victim of drought, floods, hail, storms, pests, and [[plant]] [[diseases]], as well as heat and cold. And as all of these [[natural]] [[influences]] affected [[individual]] [[prosperity]], they were regarded as good luck or bad luck.

86:1.5 The later [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherds herders] held the same views of [[chance]] and luck, while the still later [[agriculturists]] were increasingly [[conscious]] that crops were immediately [[influenced]] by many things over which man had little or no [[control]]. The [[farmer]] found himself the victim of drought, floods, hail, storms, pests, and [[plant]] [[diseases]], as well as heat and cold. And as all of these [[natural]] [[influences]] affected [[individual]] [[prosperity]], they were regarded as good luck or bad luck.

86:1.6 This notion of [[chance]] and [[luck]] strongly pervaded the [[philosophy]] of all [[ancient]] peoples. Even in recent times in the [[Wisdom of Solomon]] it is said: "I returned and saw that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither bread to the [[wise]], nor riches to men of [[understanding]], nor [[favor]] to men of [[skill]]; but [[fate]] and [[chance]] befall them all. For man knows not his [[fate]]; as fishes are taken in an evil net, and as birds are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an [[evil]] time when it falls suddenly upon them."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ecclesiastes#Chapter._9]

86:1.6 This notion of [[chance]] and [[luck]] strongly pervaded the [[philosophy]] of all [[ancient]] peoples. Even in recent times in the [[Wisdom of Solomon]] it is said: "I returned and saw that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither bread to the [[wise]], nor riches to men of [[understanding]], nor [[favor]] to men of [[skill]]; but [[fate]] and [[chance]] befall them all. For man knows not his [[fate]]; as fishes are taken in an evil net, and as birds are caught in a snare, so are the sons of men snared in an [[evil]] time when it falls suddenly upon them."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Ecclesiastes#Chapter._9]

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[[Category: Paper 86 - Early Evolution of Religion]]

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