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71:0.1 The [[state]] is a useful [[evolution]] of [[civilization]]; it [[represents]] [[society]]'s net gain from the ravages and [[sufferings]] of [[war]]. Even statecraft is merely the accumulated [[technique]] for [[adjusting]] the [[competitive]] contest of [[force]] between the struggling [[tribes]] and [[nations]].
71:0.2 The [[modern]] [[state]] is the [[institution]] which [[survived]] in the long [[struggle]] for [[group]] [[power]]. Superior [[power]] [[eventually]] prevailed, and it produced a [[creature]] of [[fact]]—the [[state]]—together with the [[moral]] [[myth]] of the [[absolute]] [[obligation]] of the [[citizen]] to live and die for the [[state]]. But the [[state]] is not of [[divine]] [[genesis]]; it was not even produced by [[volition]]ally [[intelligent]] [[human]] [[action]]; it is [[purely]] an [[evolutionary]] [[institution]] and was wholly [[automatic]] in [[origin]].
<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]]
71:0.1 The [[state]] is a useful [[evolution]] of [[civilization]]; it [[represents]] [[society]]'s net gain from the ravages and [[sufferings]] of [[war]]. Even statecraft is merely the accumulated [[technique]] for [[adjusting]] the [[competitive]] contest of [[force]] between the struggling [[tribes]] and [[nations]].
71:0.2 The [[modern]] [[state]] is the [[institution]] which [[survived]] in the long [[struggle]] for [[group]] [[power]]. Superior [[power]] [[eventually]] prevailed, and it produced a [[creature]] of [[fact]]—the [[state]]—together with the [[moral]] [[myth]] of the [[absolute]] [[obligation]] of the [[citizen]] to live and die for the [[state]]. But the [[state]] is not of [[divine]] [[genesis]]; it was not even produced by [[volition]]ally [[intelligent]] [[human]] [[action]]; it is [[purely]] an [[evolutionary]] [[institution]] and was wholly [[automatic]] in [[origin]].
<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]]
