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81:5.1 [[Biologic]] [[evolution]] and [[cultural]] [[civilization]] are not necessarily correlated; [[organic]] evolution in any age may proceed unhindered in the very midst of [[cultural]] [[decadence]]. But when lengthy periods of [[human]] [[history]] are surveyed, it will be [[observed]] that [[eventually]] [[evolution]] and [[culture]] become [[related]] as [[cause]] and [[effect]]. [[Evolution]] may advance in the [[absence]] of [[culture]], but cultural [[civilization]] does not flourish without an adequate background of antecedent [[racial]] [[progression]]. [[Adam and Eve]] introduced no [[art]] of [[civilization]] foreign to the [[progress]] of [[human]] [[society]], but the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamic blood] did augment the [[inherent]] [[ability]] of the [[races]] and did [[accelerate]] the pace of [[economic]] [[development]] and [[industrial]] [[progression]]. [[Adam]]'s [[bestowal]] improved the [[brain]] [[power]] of the races, thereby greatly hastening the [[processes]] of [[natural]] [[evolution]].
81:5.2 Through [[agriculture]], [[animal]] [[domestication]], and improved architecture, [[mankind]] gradually [[escaped]] the worst of the incessant [[struggle]] to live and began to cast about to find wherewith to sweeten the [[process]] of living; and this was the beginning of the striving for higher and ever higher [[standards]] of [[material]] [[comfort]]. Through [[manufacture]] and [[industry]] man is [[gradually]] augmenting the [[pleasure]] [[content]] of [[mortal]] life.
81:5.3 But [[cultural]] [[society]] is no great and beneficent club of [[inherited]] [[privilege]] into which all men are born with free membership and entire [[equality]]. Rather is it an exalted and ever-advancing [[guild]] of [[earth]] workers, admitting to its ranks only the [[nobility]] of those toilers who strive to make the world a better place in which their [[children]] and their children's children may live and advance in subsequent [[ages]]. And this guild of [[civilization]] exacts costly admission fees, imposes strict and rigorous [[disciplines]], visits heavy [[penalties]] on all [[dissent]]ers and nonconformists, while it confers few [[personal]] licenses or [[privileges]] except those of enhanced [[security]] against common [[dangers]] and racial perils.
81:5.4 [[Social]] [[association]] is a form of [[survival]] insurance which [[human being]]s have learned is profitable; therefore are most [[individuals]] willing to pay those premiums of [[self]]-[[sacrifice]] and [[personal]]-[[liberty]] curtailment which [[society]] exacts from its members in return for this enhanced [[group]] [[protection]]. In short, the present-day [[social]] [[mechanism]] is a trial-and-error insurance [[plan]] designed to afford some [[degree]] of [[assurance]] and [[protection]] against a return to the terrible and antisocial conditions which characterized the early [[experiences]] of the [[human]] [[race]].
81:5.5 [[Society]] thus becomes a [[co-operative]] [[scheme]] for securing [[civil]] [[freedom]] through [[institutions]], [[economic]] [[freedom]] through [[capital]] and [[invention]], [[social]] [[liberty]] through [[culture]], and [[freedom]] from [[violence]] through [[police]] [[Control|regulation]].
81:5.6 Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized [[rights]] of each [[succeeding]] [[generation]]. The prime mission of [[government]] is the [[definition]] of the right, the [[just]] and [[fair]] regulation of class [[differences]], and the enforcement of [[equality]] of [[opportunity]] under the rules of [[law]]. Every [[human]] right is [[associated]] with a [[social]] [[duty]]; group [[privilege]] is an insurance [[mechanism]] which unfailingly demands the full payment of the exacting premiums of [[group]] [[service]]. And group rights, as well as those of the [[individual]], must be protected, including the regulation of the [[sex]] [[propensity]].
81:5.7 [[Liberty]] subject to [[group]] regulation is the legitimate goal of [[social]] [[evolution]]. Liberty without restrictions is the [[vain]] and fanciful [[dream]] of unstable and flighty [[human]] [[minds]].
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[[Category:Paper 81 - Development of Modern Civilization]]
81:5.1 [[Biologic]] [[evolution]] and [[cultural]] [[civilization]] are not necessarily correlated; [[organic]] evolution in any age may proceed unhindered in the very midst of [[cultural]] [[decadence]]. But when lengthy periods of [[human]] [[history]] are surveyed, it will be [[observed]] that [[eventually]] [[evolution]] and [[culture]] become [[related]] as [[cause]] and [[effect]]. [[Evolution]] may advance in the [[absence]] of [[culture]], but cultural [[civilization]] does not flourish without an adequate background of antecedent [[racial]] [[progression]]. [[Adam and Eve]] introduced no [[art]] of [[civilization]] foreign to the [[progress]] of [[human]] [[society]], but the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE Adamic blood] did augment the [[inherent]] [[ability]] of the [[races]] and did [[accelerate]] the pace of [[economic]] [[development]] and [[industrial]] [[progression]]. [[Adam]]'s [[bestowal]] improved the [[brain]] [[power]] of the races, thereby greatly hastening the [[processes]] of [[natural]] [[evolution]].
81:5.2 Through [[agriculture]], [[animal]] [[domestication]], and improved architecture, [[mankind]] gradually [[escaped]] the worst of the incessant [[struggle]] to live and began to cast about to find wherewith to sweeten the [[process]] of living; and this was the beginning of the striving for higher and ever higher [[standards]] of [[material]] [[comfort]]. Through [[manufacture]] and [[industry]] man is [[gradually]] augmenting the [[pleasure]] [[content]] of [[mortal]] life.
81:5.3 But [[cultural]] [[society]] is no great and beneficent club of [[inherited]] [[privilege]] into which all men are born with free membership and entire [[equality]]. Rather is it an exalted and ever-advancing [[guild]] of [[earth]] workers, admitting to its ranks only the [[nobility]] of those toilers who strive to make the world a better place in which their [[children]] and their children's children may live and advance in subsequent [[ages]]. And this guild of [[civilization]] exacts costly admission fees, imposes strict and rigorous [[disciplines]], visits heavy [[penalties]] on all [[dissent]]ers and nonconformists, while it confers few [[personal]] licenses or [[privileges]] except those of enhanced [[security]] against common [[dangers]] and racial perils.
81:5.4 [[Social]] [[association]] is a form of [[survival]] insurance which [[human being]]s have learned is profitable; therefore are most [[individuals]] willing to pay those premiums of [[self]]-[[sacrifice]] and [[personal]]-[[liberty]] curtailment which [[society]] exacts from its members in return for this enhanced [[group]] [[protection]]. In short, the present-day [[social]] [[mechanism]] is a trial-and-error insurance [[plan]] designed to afford some [[degree]] of [[assurance]] and [[protection]] against a return to the terrible and antisocial conditions which characterized the early [[experiences]] of the [[human]] [[race]].
81:5.5 [[Society]] thus becomes a [[co-operative]] [[scheme]] for securing [[civil]] [[freedom]] through [[institutions]], [[economic]] [[freedom]] through [[capital]] and [[invention]], [[social]] [[liberty]] through [[culture]], and [[freedom]] from [[violence]] through [[police]] [[Control|regulation]].
81:5.6 Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized [[rights]] of each [[succeeding]] [[generation]]. The prime mission of [[government]] is the [[definition]] of the right, the [[just]] and [[fair]] regulation of class [[differences]], and the enforcement of [[equality]] of [[opportunity]] under the rules of [[law]]. Every [[human]] right is [[associated]] with a [[social]] [[duty]]; group [[privilege]] is an insurance [[mechanism]] which unfailingly demands the full payment of the exacting premiums of [[group]] [[service]]. And group rights, as well as those of the [[individual]], must be protected, including the regulation of the [[sex]] [[propensity]].
81:5.7 [[Liberty]] subject to [[group]] regulation is the legitimate goal of [[social]] [[evolution]]. Liberty without restrictions is the [[vain]] and fanciful [[dream]] of unstable and flighty [[human]] [[minds]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_81 Go to Paper 81]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 81 - Development of Modern Civilization]]
