civilization

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civilization. See also evolution: social evolution; government; social classes; standards of living
Adamic infusion accelerated (81:0.2)
concerned with self-perpetuation, self-maintenance, and self-gratification (68:2.3)
dangers
breakdown during transition (81:6.40-41)
breaks down without superhuman help (68:3.4)
civilization retrogresses when genius declines (195:1.9)
common opinion has always delayed (71:2.7)
force only temporarily advances c. (71:2.7)
inferior minds spurn highest c. (50:6.4)
jeopardy when 3/4 of youth enter materialistic professions (111:4.3-4)
must keep pace with scientific developments (81:6.39)
racially degenerate stocks have retarded (99:3.5)
reasons for decline of Roman Empire (195:3.8-9)
recedes from premature attainment (78:2.3-4) (118:8.6)
sudden transformations unhelpful (66:6.3-7)
too complicated or too luxurious standards of living are suicidal (68:6.7)
unbridled self-gratification unfailingly destroys (68:2.11)
when society is overstressed (70:1.1)
will not settle down for a millennium (99:1.1,3)
demands ideal type of citizen (99:3.4)
dependent upon (68:2sec) (71:4.2-14) (81:6sec)
advances born in inner world (111:4.3)
antecedent racial progression (81:5.1)
capital goods (81:6.6-7)
care of the unfortunate (71:4.10)
climate is decisive factor (78:8.11) (80:1.4) (80:2.1) (80:3.8) (81:1.1-3) (81:6.3-4). See also drought
co-ordination of specialists (81:6.29-33)
communication (81:6.25) (160:2.3)
compulsory education, which is the only safe method of accelerating c. (70:9.9) (71:2.7) (71:4.7)
compulsory employment (71:4.8)
domestication of animals (81:2.5)
education of younger generation (81:6.24)
effective families (71:4.4) (79:8.9) (84:0.2) (84:7.1)
efforts of planetary helper seraphim (39:5sec)
enslavement of captives (81:2.6)
enthusiastic and effective load-pulling spirit (81:6.35-37)
food and security (50:5.7) (71:4.5)
freedom of religion (70:9.12)
human resources (81:6.11-13)
language (81:6.16-19)
leadership (81:6.14,26-27,39-42)
leisure to think and plan (50:5.7) (71:4.9) (78:2.4) (81:2.2,14) (81:6.6)
liberty of the individual (71:4.3)
love, the wellspring of superior c. (16:9.7) (102:6.3)
Master’s teachings conceal secret of (154:4.6) (194:3.12)
military defense (70:9.4)
moral assistance of well-ordered society (34:7.4) (102:8.2)
morality predicated on spiritual realities (39:3.7) (195:5.9)
natural resources (78:2.4) (81:6.3-5)
prevention of disease (71:4.6)
private property (81:2.7)
promotion of art (71:4.12)
rearing of children in environment of culture (68:0.2)
religion; God; nothing takes the place of God in c. (16:9.7) (80:7.8) (94:6.12) (195:8.6)
sagacious correlation of material wealth, intellectual greatness, moral worth, social cleverness, cosmic insight (16:9.4,7) (71:4.14) (81:6.38)
scientific knowledge (71:4.12) (81:6.8-10)
selective elimination of inferior strains; education, religion (70:8.14-18) (71:4.11) (79:2.6-8)
sound genetic base. See genetics
spiritual idealism (81:6.26-27)
taming of fire (81:2.4)
the planetary age, biological uplifters, missions of divine Sons (49:5.16)
tools (81:2sec)
true religion; spiritual idealism is energy which advances (71:4.14) (79:4.9) (79:6.10) (81:6.27)
willingness to invest in future generations (84:7.27)
world travel (81:6.25)
does not make the people (76:6.4)
early war dissolved illusion of equality (70:2.10)
enables man to stand on shoulders of all who have preceded him (79:8.12) (81:6.23,25,44) (160:2.3)
evolutionary religion is man’s most expensive but incomparably effective institution (92:3.6-9)
goals
conserves property (79:8.11)
develops sense of duty, morality (79:8.14)
education of children (79:8.13)
for every man to love his neighbor as himself (99:2.4)
foster originality (70:2.18)
ideal realized only in divine kingdom (196:2.11)
prime gift of society is security, survival possibilities (68:1.5) (70:9.1) (81:5.4)
refusal to use power selfishly is mark of high c. (48:7.8)
should not tolerate idleness or poverty (71:3.8)
should provide fair and peaceful opportunity to all (70:9.17)
society secures civil freedom through institutions (81:5.5)
superconscious mind contains master patterns for (111:4.5)
is to evolution as effect to cause (81:5.1)
Jesus avoided entanglements with economic structure (120:3.4)
joint product of mortals and midwayers (77:9.8)
judge by purity and nobility of its religion (102:8.2)
lower strata no longer so ignorant, politically helpless (99:1.5)
modern civilization
critically interdependent (99:1.4)
dangerous phase of complicated interdependence (68:2.5)
notwithstanding material achievement, is slowly disintegrating (195:8.10)
offspring of ages of trial and error (81:6.41)
nationalism prevents c. from disintegrating (195:8.10)
never developed in poverty (81:6.6)
no great club of inherited privilege; exacts fees (81:5.3-5)
not divine; a phenomenon of progressive evolution (81:6.39)
numerous unmarrieds indicates breakdown of mores (83:7.5)
organization of intelligent co-operators (68:1.4)
primitive society (Papers 68, 70, 71)
4 great stages were collection, hunting, pastoral, and agricultural (66:3.2) (68:5.2-11)
belief group had right to control individuals (70:10.4)
chief factor was force exerted by wise social masters (81:6.14)
Chinese were first to attain large-scale (79:6.8)
dawn of; cradle of (Paper 68) (81:1sec)
first great advances were fire, animal domestication, slavery, and private property (69:6-9secs) (81:2.7)
forged out between anvil of necessity and hammers of fear (66:5.13)
founded on the reciprocity of necessity (68:1.3)
industrial, regulative, religious, military divisions (69:6.1)
man’s insurance against risk, violent death (68:1.2) (68:2.2)
men driven together by food hunger, sex love, vanity, and ghost fear (68:2.4,6) (68:3sec)
Planetary Prince’s and Adam’s headquarters intended to advance (51:6.3) (51:7sec) (66:3sec)
slavery caused culture to perish (80:7.6,13)
wholly negative in its organization (70:11.2)
progressive civilization (50:5-6secs)
race mixture favors versatility (79:2.7)
retrogression
after death of Andon (63:5.7) (64:1.7) (64:2.4) (64:4.12)
after death of Onamonalonton (64:6.8)
after Lucifer rebellion (67:5.3)
in Mesopotamia with emigration of superior peoples; immigration of inferiors (78:8.12)
many backward steps (68:4.7)
rights asserted by society (70:9.2)
second Eden was cradle of c. for 30,000 years (76:3.8) (78:0.1)
small middle class appeared in Jesus’ time (121:1.8) (121:3.4)
society has right to employ force (133:1.5) (133:4.12) (140:8.4)
spiritual progress not dependent upon (65:8.4)
spread by commerce and exploration (52:6.3) (81:3.2,6,7)
status determined by equity of courts (70:11.14)
sum of man’s adjustment to life (68:5.1)
unstable; not biologically innate (16:9.4-5) (68:0.2)

Cross-references

See genetics
See also evolution: social evolution
See also drought
See also government
See also social classes
See also standards of living

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