The Dawn of Civilization

68:0.1This is the be­gin­ning of the nar­ra­tive of the long, long for­ward strug­gle of the hu­man species from a sta­tus that was lit­tle bet­ter than an an­i­mal ex­is­tence, through the in­ter­ven­ing ages, and down to the later times when a real, though im­per­fect, civ­i­liza­tion had evolved among the higher races of man­kind.

68:0.2Civ­i­liza­tion is a racial ac­quire­ment; it is not bi­o­log­i­cally in­her­ent; hence must all chil­dren be reared in an en­vi­ron­ment of cul­ture, while each suc­ceed­ing gen­er­a­tion of youth must re­ceive anew its ed­u­ca­tion. The su­pe­rior qual­i­ties of civ­i­liza­tion—sci­en­tific, philo­sophic, and re­li­gious—are not trans­mit­ted from one gen­er­a­tion to an­other by di­rect in­her­i­tance. These cul­tural achieve­ments are pre­served only by the en­light­ened con­ser­va­tion of so­cial in­her­i­tance.

68:0.3So­cial evo­lu­tion of the co-op­er­a­tive or­der was ini­ti­ated by the Dala­ma­tia teach­ers, and for three hun­dred thou­sand years man­kind was nur­tured in the idea of group ac­tiv­i­ties. The blue man most of all prof­ited by these early so­cial teach­ings, the red man to some ex­tent, and the black man least of all. In more re­cent times the yel­low race and the white race have pre­sented the most ad­vanced so­cial de­vel­op­ment on Uran­tia.