exploration

78:4.6These And­ites were ad­ven­tur­ous; they had rov­ing dis­po­si­tions. An in­crease of ei­ther San­gik or An­don­ite stock tended to sta­bi­lize them. But even so, their later de­scen­dants never stopped un­til they had cir­cum­nav­i­gated the globe and dis­cov­ered the last re­mote con­ti­nent.

69:4.8New ideas and bet­ter meth­ods were car­ried around the in­hab­ited world by the an­cient traders. Com­merce, linked with ad­ven­ture, led to ex­plo­ration and dis­cov­ery. And all of these gave birth to trans­porta­tion. Com­merce has been the great civ­i­lizer through pro­mot­ing the cross-fer­til­iza­tion of cul­ture.

52:3.6The re­sult of the gift of the Adamic life plasm to the mor­tal races is an im­me­di­ate up­step­ping of in­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity and an ac­cel­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual prog­ress. There is usu­ally some phys­i­cal im­prove­ment also. On an av­er­age world the post-Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion is an age of great in­ven­tion, en­ergy con­trol, and me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ment. This is the era of the ap­pear­ance of mul­ti­form man­u­fac­ture and the con­trol of nat­u­ral forces; it is the golden age of ex­plo­ration and the fi­nal sub­du­ing of the planet. Much of the ma­te­rial prog­ress of a world oc­curs dur­ing this time of the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal sci­ences, just such an epoch as Uran­tia is now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing. Your world is a full dis­pen­sa­tion and more be­hind the av­er­age plan­e­tary sched­ule.