This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. A Summaky Op Social Progress SECTION 96. THE BEGINNING OF SOCIAL PROGRESS. (1) Society has expanded from simple beginnings, function by function, part by part. a. Animal societies show social qualities in embryo. b. Our starting-point is with earliest social groups. (a) We presuppose not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. A Summaky Op Social Progress SECTION 96. THE BEGINNING OF SOCIAL PROGRESS. (1) Society has expanded from simple beginnings, function by function, part by part. a. Animal societies show social qualities in embryo. b. Our starting-point is with earliest social groups. (a) We presuppose not an individual, but a group. (b) Life in social groups is the most powerful weapon in the struggle for existence; enables the feebler insects, the feebler birds, the feebler mammals to protect their lives. c. Neither-in savagery nor in civilization do men normally live in isolation. (2) Among all species and in every stage of evolution, the extent of social grouping and its place or position is determined by external physical conditions., . Where a food supply is found or may be certainly and easily produced. b. Earliest social groups are maintained at a certain size and prevented from growing larger chiefly by the quantity of available food. (3) The remains of the earliest social groups are found in the region running northwest and southeast from India. a. The first really dense massing of population was in that wonderful valley 600 miles long with an average breadth of seven miles--the Nile. b. The valley of the Euphrates which for thousands of years was the Nile's only rival was almost equally fertile. (4) Ancient groupings reach a certain stage of civilization and then fall away chiefly because they are unable to resist the pressure of nature. a. India's high temperature a cause of her decline. (a) A cheap and abundant national food in rice, labor market oversupplied and unequal distribution of wealth, then an unequal distribution of social and political power. (5) Ancient civilizations subject to sublimity of nature which tended to excite..
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