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Urantia Book Paper 71 Development Of The State
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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Of Adjusters To Universe Creatures Relation Of Adjusters To Individual Mortals
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Paper 71 Development Of The State
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Introduction
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THE state is a useful evolution of civilization; it represents society's net
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gain from the ravages and sufferings of war. Even statecraft is merely the
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accumulated technique for adjusting the competitive contest of force between
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the struggling tribes and nations.
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The modern state is the institution which survived in the long struggle for
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group power. Superior power eventually prevailed, and it produced a creature of
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fact--the state--together with the moral myth of the absolute obligation of the
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citizen to live and die for the state. But the state is not of divine genesis;
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it was not even produced by volitionally intelligent human action; it is purely
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an evolutionary institution and was wholly automatic in origin.
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1. THE EMBRYONIC STATE
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The state is a territorial social regulative organization, and the strongest,
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most efficient, and enduring state is composed of a single nation whose people
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have a common language, mores, and institutions.
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The early states were small and were all the result of conquest. They did not
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originate in voluntary associations. Many were founded by conquering nomads,
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who would swoop down on peaceful herders or settled agriculturists to overpower
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and enslave them. Such states, resulting from conquest, were, perforce,
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stratified; classes were inevitable, and class struggles have ever been
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selective.
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The northern tribes of the American red men never attained real statehood. They
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never progressed beyond a loose confederation of tribes, a very primitive form
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of state. Their nearest approach was the Iroquois federation, but this group of
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six nations never quite functioned as a state and failed to survive because of
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the absence of certain essentials to modern national life, such as:
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1. Acquirement and inheritance of private property.
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2. Cities plus agriculture and industry.
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3. Helpful domestic animals.
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4. Practical family organization. These red men clung to the mother-family and
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nephew inheritance.
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5. Definite territory.
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6. A strong executive head.
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7. Enslavement of captives--they either adopted or massacred them.
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8. Decisive conquests.
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The red men were too democratic; they had a good government, but it failed.
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Eventually they would have evolved a state had they not prematurely en
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countered the more advanced civilization of the white man, who was pursuing the
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governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans.
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The successful Roman state was based on:
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1. The father-family.
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2. Agriculture and the domestication of animals.
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3. Condensation of population--cities.
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4. Private property and land.
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5. Slavery--classes of citizenship.
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6. Conquest and reorganization of weak and backward peoples.
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7. Definite territory with roads.
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8. Personal and strong rulers.
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The great weakness in Roman civilization, and a factor in the ultimate collapse
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of the empire, was the supposed liberal and advanced provision for the
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emancipation of the boy at twenty-one and the unconditional release of the girl
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so that she was at liberty to marry a man of her own choosing or to go abroad
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in the land to become immoral. The harm to society consisted not in these
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reforms themselves but rather in the sudden and extensive manner of their
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adoption. The collapse of Rome indicates what may be expected when a state
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undergoes too rapid extension associated with internal degeneration.
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The embryonic state was made possible by the decline of the blood bond in favor
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of the territorial, and such tribal federations were usually firmly cemented by
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conquest. While a sovereignty that transcends all minor struggles and group
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differences is the characteristic of the true state, still, many classes and
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castes persist in the later state organizations as remnants of the clans and
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tribes of former days. The later and larger territorial states had a long and
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bitter struggle with these smaller consanguineous clan groups, the tribal
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government proving a valuable transition from family to state authority. During
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later times many clans grew out of trades and other industrial associations.
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Failure of state integration results in retrogression to prestate conditions of
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governmental techniques, such as the feudalism of the European Middle Ages.
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During these dark ages the territorial state collapsed, and there was a
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reversion to the small castle groups, the reappearance of the clan and tribal
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stages of development. Similar semistates even now exist in Asia and Africa,
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but not all of them are evolutionary reversions; many are the embryonic
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nucleuses of states of the future.
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2. THE EVOLUTION OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
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Democracy, while an ideal, is a product of civilization, not of evolution. Go
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slowly! select carefully! for the dangers of democracy are:
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1. Glorification of mediocrity.
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2. Choice of base and ignorant rulers.
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3. Failure to recognize the basic facts of social evolution.
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4. Danger of universal suffrage in the hands of uneducated and indolent
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majorities.
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5. Slavery to public opinion; the majority is not always right.
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Public opinion, common opinion, has always delayed society; nevertheless, it is
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valuable, for, while retarding social evolution, it does preserve civilization.
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Education of public opinion is the only safe and true method of accelerating
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civilization; force is only a temporary expedient, and cultural growth will
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increasingly accelerate as bullets give way to ballots. Public opinion, the
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mores, is the basic and elemental energy in social evolution and state
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development, but to be of state value it must be nonviolent in expression.
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The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to
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which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through
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nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public
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opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections
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may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to
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do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but
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rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment.
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There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient
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form of representative government, and these are:
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1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must
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disappear.
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2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated--taught to think
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intelligently and plan wisely--freedom usually does more harm than good.
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3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of
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human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted
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fundamental law.
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4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom
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of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions.
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5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide
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for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to
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use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property.
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6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of
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citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free
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citizenship.
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7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must
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progress to the actual management of the government.
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8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent,
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efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will
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ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As
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civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes,
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will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated.
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9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and
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effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and
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controlling officeholders and public servants.
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10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is
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dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon
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the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are
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technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit.
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Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for
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the people be preserved.
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3. THE IDEALS OF STATEHOOD
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The political or administrative form of a government is of little consequence
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provided it affords the essentials of civil progress--liberty, security,
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education, and social co-ordination. It is not what a state is but what it does
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that determines the course of social evolution. And after all, no state can
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transcend the moral values of its citizenry as exemplified in their chosen
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leaders. Ignorance and selfishness will insure the downfall of even the highest
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type of government.
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Much as it is to be regretted, national egotism has been essential to social
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survival. The chosen people doctrine has been a prime factor in tribal welding
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and nation building right on down to modern times. But no state can attain
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ideal levels of functioning until every form of intolerance is mastered; it is
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everlastingly inimical to human progress. And intolerance is best combated by
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the co-ordination of science, commerce, play, and religion.
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The ideal state functions under the impulse of three mighty and co-ordinated
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drives:
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1. Love loyalty derived from the realization of human brotherhood.
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2. Intelligent patriotism based on wise ideals.
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3. Cosmic insight interpreted in terms of planetary facts, needs, and goals.
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The laws of the ideal state are few in number, and they have passed out of the
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negativistic taboo age into the era of the positive progress of individual
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liberty consequent upon enhanced self-control. The exalted state not only
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compels its citizens to work but also entices them into profitable and
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uplifting utilization of the increasing leisure which results from toil
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liberation by the advancing machine age. Leisure must produce as well as
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consume.
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No society has progressed very far when it permits idleness or tolerates
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poverty. But poverty and dependence can never be eliminated if the defective
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and degenerate stocks are freely supported and permitted to reproduce without
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restraint.
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A moral society should aim to preserve the self-respect of its citizenry and
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afford every normal individual adequate opportunity for self-realization. Such
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a plan of social achievement would yield a cultural society of the highest
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order. Social evolution should be encouraged by governmental supervision which
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exercises a minimum of regulative control. That state is best which
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co-ordinates most while governing least.
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The ideals of statehood must be attained by evolution, by the slow growth of
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civic consciousness, the recognition of the obligation and privilege of social
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service. At first men assume the burdens of government as a duty, following the
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end of the administration of political spoilsmen, but later on they seek such
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ministry as a privilege, as the greatest honor. The status of any level of
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civilization is faithfully portrayed by the caliber of its citizens who
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volunteer to accept the responsibilities of statehood.
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In a real commonwealth the business of governing cities and provinces is
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conducted by experts and is managed just as are all other forms of economic and
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commercial associations of people.
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In advanced states, political service is esteemed as the highest devotion of
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the citizenry. The greatest ambition of the wisest and noblest of citizens is
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to
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gain civil recognition, to be elected or appointed to some position of
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governmental trust, and such governments confer their highest honors of
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recognition for service upon their civil and social servants. Honors are next
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bestowed in the order named upon philosophers, educators, scientists,
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industrialists, and militarists. Parents are duly rewarded by the excellency of
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their children, and purely religious leaders, being ambassadors of a spiritual
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kingdom, receive their real rewards in another world.
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4. PROGRESSIVE CIVILIZATION
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Economics, society, and government must evolve if they are to remain. Static
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conditions on an evolutionary world are indicative of decay; only those
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institutions which move forward with the evolutionary stream persist.
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The progressive program of an expanding civilization embraces:
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1. Preservation of individual liberties.
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2. Protection of the home.
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3. Promotion of economic security.
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4. Prevention of disease.
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5. Compulsory education.
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6. Compulsory employment.
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7. Profitable utilization of leisure.
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8. Care of the unfortunate.
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9. Race improvement.
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10. Promotion of science and art.
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11. Promotion of philosophy--wisdom.
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12. Augmentation of cosmic insight--spirituality.
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And this progress in the arts of civilization leads directly to the realization
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of the highest human and divine goals of mortal endeavor--the social
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achievement of the brotherhood of man and the personal status of
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God-consciousness, which becomes revealed in the supreme desire of every
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individual to do the will of the Father in heaven.
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The appearance of genuine brotherhood signifies that a social order has arrived
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in which all men delight in bearing one another's burdens; they actually desire
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to practice the golden rule. But such an ideal society cannot be realized when
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either the weak or the wicked lie in wait to take unfair and unholy advantage
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of those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty,
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and goodness. In such a situation only one course is practical: The "golden
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rulers" may establish a progressive society in which they live according to
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their ideals while maintaining an adequate defense against their benighted
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fellows who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to
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destroy their advancing civilization.
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Idealism can never survive on an evolving planet if the idealists in each
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generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of
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humanity. And here is the great test of idealism: Can an advanced society
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maintain that military preparedness which renders it secure from all attack by
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its war-loving neighbors without yielding to the temptation to employ this
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military
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strength in offensive operations against other peoples for purposes of selfish
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gain or national aggrandizement? National survival demands preparedness, and
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religious idealism alone can prevent the prostitution of preparedness into
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aggression. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the
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weak.
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5. THE EVOLUTION OF COMPETITION
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Competition is essential to social progress, but competition, unregulated,
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breeds violence. In current society, competition is slowly displacing war in
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that it determines the individual's place in industry, as well as decreeing the
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survival of the industries themselves. (Murder and war differ in their status
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before the mores, murder having been outlawed since the early days of society,
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while war has never yet been outlawed by mankind as a whole.)
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The ideal state undertakes to regulate social conduct only enough to take
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violence out of individual competition and to prevent unfairness in personal
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initiative. Here is a great problem in statehood: How can you guarantee peace
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and quiet in industry, pay the taxes to support state power, and at the same
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time prevent taxation from handicapping industry and keep the state from
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becoming parasitical or tyrannical?
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Throughout the earlier ages of any world, competition is essential to
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progressive civilization. As the evolution of man progresses, co-operation
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becomes increasingly effective. In advanced civilizations co-operation is more
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efficient than competition. Early man is stimulated by competition. Early
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evolution is characterized by the survival of the biologically fit, but later
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civilizations are the better promoted by intelligent co-operation,
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understanding fraternity, and spiritual brotherhood.
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True, competition in industry is exceedingly wasteful and highly ineffective,
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but no attempt to eliminate this economic lost motion should be countenanced if
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such adjustments entail even the slightest abrogation of any of the basic
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liberties of the individual.
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6. THE PROFIT MOTIVE
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Present-day profit-motivated economics is doomed unless profit motives can be
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augmented by service motives. Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded
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self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to
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maintain. Exclusive and self-serving profit motivation is incompatible with
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Christian ideals--much more incompatible with the teachings of Jesus.
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In economics, profit motivation is to service motivation what fear is to love
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in religion. But the profit motive must not be suddenly destroyed or removed;
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it keeps many otherwise slothful mortals hard at work. It is not necessary,
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however, that this social energy arouser be forever selfish in its objectives.
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The profit motive of economic activities is altogether base and wholly unworthy
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of an advanced order of society; nevertheless, it is an indispensable factor
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throughout the earlier phases of civilization. Profit motivation must not be
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taken away from men until they have firmly possessed themselves of superior
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types of nonprofit motives for economic striving and social serving--the
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transcendent urges of superlative wisdom, intriguing brotherhood, and
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excellency of spiritual attainment.
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7. EDUCATION
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The enduring state is founded on culture, dominated by ideals, and motivated by
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service. The purpose of education should be acquirement of skill, pursuit of
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wisdom, realization of selfhood, and attainment of spiritual values.
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In the ideal state, education continues throughout life, and philosophy
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sometimes becomes the chief pursuit of its citizens. The citizens of such a
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commonwealth pursue wisdom as an enhancement of insight into the significance
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of human relations, the meanings of reality, the nobility of values, the goals
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of living, and the glories of cosmic destiny.
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Urantians should get a vision of a new and higher cultural society. Education
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will jump to new levels of value with the passing of the purely
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profit-motivated system of economics. Education has too long been localistic,
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militaristic, ego exalting, and success seeking; it must eventually become
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world-wide, idealistic, self-realizing, and cosmic grasping.
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Education recently passed from the control of the clergy to that of lawyers and
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businessmen. Eventually it must be given over to the philosophers and the
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scientists. Teachers must be free beings, real leaders, to the end that
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philosophy, the search for wisdom, may become the chief educational pursuit.
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Education is the business of living; it must continue throughout a lifetime so
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that mankind may gradually experience the ascending levels of mortal wisdom,
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which are:
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1. The knowledge of things.
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2. The realization of meanings.
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3. The appreciation of values.
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4. The nobility of work--duty.
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5. The motivation of goals--morality.
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6. The love of service--character.
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7. Cosmic insight--spiritual discernment.
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And then, by means of these achievements, many will ascend to the mortal
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ultimate of mind attainment, God-consciousness.
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8. THE CHARACTER OF STATEHOOD
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The only sacred feature of any human government is the division of statehood
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into the three domains of executive, legislative, and judicial functions. The
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universe is administered in accordance with such a plan of segregation of
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functions and authority. Aside from this divine concept of effective social
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regulation or civil government, it matters little what form of state a people
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may elect to have provided the citizenry is ever progressing toward the goal of
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augmented self-control and increased social service. The intellectual keenness,
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economic wisdom, social cleverness, and moral stamina of a people are all
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faithfully reflected in statehood.
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The evolution of statehood entails progress from level to level, as follows:
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1. The creation of a threefold government of executive, legislative, and
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judicial branches.
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2. The freedom of social, political, and religious activities.
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3. The abolition of all forms of slavery and human bondage.
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4. The ability of the citizenry to control the levying of taxes.
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5. The establishment of universal education--learning extended from the cradle
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to the grave.
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6. The proper adjustment between local and national governments.
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7. The fostering of science and the conquest of disease.
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8. The due recognition of sex equality and the co-ordinated functioning of men
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and women in the home, school, and church, with specialized service of women in
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industry and government.
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9. The elimination of toiling slavery by machine invention and the subsequent
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mastery of the machine age.
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10. The conquest of dialects--the triumph of a universal language.
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11. The ending of war--international adjudication of national and racial
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differences by continental courts of nations presided over by a supreme
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planetary tribunal automatically recruited from the periodically retiring heads
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of the continental courts. The continental courts are authoritative; the world
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court is advisory--moral.
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12. The world-wide vogue of the pursuit of wisdom--the exaltation of
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philosophy. The evolution of a world religion, which will presage the entrance
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of the planet upon the earlier phases of settlement in light and life.
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These are the prerequisites of progressive government and the earmarks of ideal
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statehood. Urantia is far from the realization of these exalted ideals, but the
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civilized races have made a beginning--mankind is on the march toward higher
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evolutionary destinies.
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[Sponsored by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART III: The History of Urantia
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: The Origin Of Urantia Life Establishment On Urantia The Marine-life Era On
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Urantia Urantia During The Early Land-life Era The Mammalian Era On Urantia The
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Dawn Races Of Early Man The First Human Family The Evolutionary Races Of Color
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The Overcontrol Of Evolution The Planetary Prince Of Urantia The Planetary
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Rebellion The Dawn Of Civilization Primitive Human Institutions The Evolution
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Of Human Government Development Of The State Government On A Neighboring Planet
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The Garden Of Eden Adam And Eve The Default Of Adam And Eve The Second Garden
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The Midway Creatures The Violet Race After The Days Of Adam Andite Expansion In
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The Orient Andite Expansion In The Occident Development Of Modern Civilization
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The Evolution Of Marriage The Marriage Institution Marriage And Family Life The
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Origins Of Worship Early Evolution Of Religion The Ghost Cults Fetishes,
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Charms, And Magic Sin, Sacrifice, And Atonement Shamanism--medicine Men And
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Priests The Evolution Of Prayer The Later Evolution Of Religion Machiventa
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Melchizedek The Melchizedek Teachings In The Orient The Melchizedek Teachings
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In The Levant Yahweh--god Of The Hebrews Evolution Of The God Concept Among The
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Hebrews The Melchizedek Teachings In The Occident The Social Problems Of
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Religion Religion In Human Experience The Real Nature Of Religion The
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Foundations Of Religious Faith The Reality Of Religious Experience Growth Of
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The Trinity Concept Deity And Reality Universe Levels Of Reality Origin And
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Nature Of Thought Adjusters Mission And Ministry Of Thought Adjusters Relation
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The Adjuster And The Soul Personality Survival Seraphic Guardians Of Destiny
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Seraphic Planetary Government The Supreme Being The Almighty Supreme God The
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Supreme Supreme And Ultimate--time And Space The Bestowals Of Christ Michael
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