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68:4.1 All [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern modern] [[social]] [[institutions]] arise from the [[evolution]] of the [[primitive]] [[customs]] of your savage [[ancestors]]; the [[conventions]] of today are the [[modified]] and expanded [[customs]] of [[Past|yesterday]]. What [[habit]] is to the [[individual]], [[custom]] is to the [[group]]; and group customs [[develop]] into [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folkways] or [[tribal]] [[traditions]]—mass conventions. From these early beginnings all of the [[institutions]] of present-day [[human]] [[society]] take their [[humble]] [[origin]].
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68:4.1 All [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern modern] [[social]] [[institutions]] arise from the [[evolution]] of the [[primitive]] [[customs]] of your savage [[ancestors]]; the [[conventions]] of today are the [[modified]] and expanded [[customs]] of [[Past|yesterday]]. What [[habit]] is to the [[individual]], [[custom]] is to the [[group]]; and group customs [[develop]] into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folkways] or [[tribal]] [[traditions]]—mass conventions. From these early beginnings all of the [[institutions]] of present-day [[human]] [[society]] take their [[humble]] [[origin]].
  
68:4.2 It must be borne in [[mind]] that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] [[originated]] in an [[effort]] to [[adjust]] [[group]] living to the conditions of mass [[existence]]; the mores were man's first [[social]] [[institution]]. And all of these [[tribal]] [[reactions]] grew out of the [[effort]] to avoid [[pain]] and [[humiliation]] while at the same time seeking to [[enjoy]] [[pleasure]] and [[power]]. The [[origin]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folkways], like the [[origin]] of [[languages]], is always [[unconscious]] and unintentional and therefore always shrouded in [[mystery]].
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68:4.2 It must be borne in [[mind]] that the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] [[originated]] in an [[effort]] to [[adjust]] [[group]] living to the conditions of mass [[existence]]; the mores were man's first [[social]] [[institution]]. And all of these [[tribal]] [[reactions]] grew out of the [[effort]] to avoid [[pain]] and [[humiliation]] while at the same time seeking to [[enjoy]] [[pleasure]] and [[power]]. The [[origin]] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folkways], like the [[origin]] of [[languages]], is always [[unconscious]] and unintentional and therefore always shrouded in [[mystery]].
  
68:4.3 [[Ghost]] [[fear]] drove [[primitive]] man to envision the [[supernatural]] and thus securely laid the [[foundations]] for those [[powerful]] [[social]] [[influences]] of [[ethics]] and [[religion]] which in turn preserved inviolate the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] and [[customs]] of [[society]] from [[generation]] to generation. The one [[thing]] which early [[established]] and crystallized the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] was the [[belief]] that the [[dead]] were [[jealous]] of the ways by which they had lived and died; therefore would they visit dire [[punishment]] upon those living [[mortals]] who dared to treat with careless disdain the rules of living which they had [[honored]] when in the [[flesh]]. All this is best [[illustrated]] by the present [[reverence]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race] for their [[ancestors]]. Later [[developing]] [[primitive]] [[religion]] greatly reinforced [[ghost]] [[fear]] in [[stabilizing]] the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores], but advancing [[civilization]] has increasingly [[liberated]] [[mankind]] from the bondage of [[fear]] and the [[slavery]] of [[superstition]].
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68:4.3 [[Ghost]] [[fear]] drove [[primitive]] man to envision the [[supernatural]] and thus securely laid the [[foundations]] for those [[powerful]] [[social]] [[influences]] of [[ethics]] and [[religion]] which in turn preserved inviolate the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] and [[customs]] of [[society]] from [[generation]] to generation. The one [[thing]] which early [[established]] and crystallized the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] was the [[belief]] that the [[dead]] were [[jealous]] of the ways by which they had lived and died; therefore would they visit dire [[punishment]] upon those living [[mortals]] who dared to treat with careless disdain the rules of living which they had [[honored]] when in the [[flesh]]. All this is best [[illustrated]] by the present [[reverence]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA yellow race] for their [[ancestors]]. Later [[developing]] [[primitive]] [[religion]] greatly reinforced [[ghost]] [[fear]] in [[stabilizing]] the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores], but advancing [[civilization]] has increasingly [[liberated]] [[mankind]] from the bondage of [[fear]] and the [[slavery]] of [[superstition]].
  
68:4.4 Prior to the [[liberating]] and liberalizing instruction of the [[Dalamatia]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF teachers], ancient man was held a helpless [[victim]] of the [[ritual]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores]; the [[primitive]] savage was hedged about by an endless [[ceremonial]]. Everything he did from the time of [[awakening]] in the morning to the [[moment]] he fell a[[sleep]] in his [[cave]] at night had to be done just so—in [[accordance]] with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folkways] of the [[tribe]]. He was a [[slave]] to the [[tyranny]] of usage; his life contained nothing [[free]], [[spontaneous]], or [[original]]. There was no [[natural]] [[progress]] toward a higher [[mental]], [[moral]], or [[social]] [[existence]].
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68:4.4 Prior to the [[liberating]] and liberalizing instruction of the [[Dalamatia]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF teachers], ancient man was held a helpless [[victim]] of the [[ritual]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores]; the [[primitive]] savage was hedged about by an endless [[ceremonial]]. Everything he did from the time of [[awakening]] in the morning to the [[moment]] he fell a[[sleep]] in his [[cave]] at night had to be done just so—in [[accordance]] with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore folkways] of the [[tribe]]. He was a [[slave]] to the [[tyranny]] of usage; his life contained nothing [[free]], [[spontaneous]], or [[original]]. There was no [[natural]] [[progress]] toward a higher [[mental]], [[moral]], or [[social]] [[existence]].
  
 
68:4.5 Early man was mightily gripped by [[custom]]; the [[Primitive|savage]] was a veritable [[slave]] to usage; but there have arisen ever and anon those variations from [[type]] who have dared to [[inaugurate]] new ways of [[thinking]] and improved [[methods]] of living. Nevertheless, the [[inertia]] of [[primitive]] man [[constitutes]] the [[biologic]] safety brake against [[precipitation]] too suddenly into the ruinous maladjustment of a too rapidly advancing [[civilization]].
 
68:4.5 Early man was mightily gripped by [[custom]]; the [[Primitive|savage]] was a veritable [[slave]] to usage; but there have arisen ever and anon those variations from [[type]] who have dared to [[inaugurate]] new ways of [[thinking]] and improved [[methods]] of living. Nevertheless, the [[inertia]] of [[primitive]] man [[constitutes]] the [[biologic]] safety brake against [[precipitation]] too suddenly into the ruinous maladjustment of a too rapidly advancing [[civilization]].
  
68:4.6 But these [[customs]] are not an unmitigated [[evil]]; their [[evolution]] should continue. It is nearly [[fatal]] to the continuance of [[civilization]] to undertake their wholesale [[modification]] by [[radical]] [[revolution]]. [[Custom]] has been the thread of [[continuity]] which has held [[civilization]] [[together]]. The path of [[human]] [[history]] is strewn with the remnants of discarded [[customs]] and obsolete [[social]] [[practices]]; but no [[civilization]] has [[endured]] which abandoned its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] except for the adoption of better and more fit [[customs]].
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68:4.6 But these [[customs]] are not an unmitigated [[evil]]; their [[evolution]] should continue. It is nearly [[fatal]] to the continuance of [[civilization]] to undertake their wholesale [[modification]] by [[radical]] [[revolution]]. [[Custom]] has been the thread of [[continuity]] which has held [[civilization]] [[together]]. The path of [[human]] [[history]] is strewn with the remnants of discarded [[customs]] and obsolete [[social]] [[practices]]; but no [[civilization]] has [[endured]] which abandoned its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores] except for the adoption of better and more fit [[customs]].
  
68:4.7 The [[survival]] of a [[society]] depends chiefly on the [[progressive]] [[evolution]] of its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores]. The [[process]] of [[custom]] [[evolution]] grows out of the [[desire]] for [[experimentation]]; new [[ideas]] are put forward—[[competition]] ensues. A [[progressing]] [[civilization]] [[embraces]] the progressive [[idea]] and [[endures]]; time and circumstance finally select the fitter [[group]] for [[survival]]. But this does not mean that each separate and isolated [[change]] in the [[composition]] of [[human]] [[society]] has been for the better. No! indeed no! for there have been many, many [[retrogression]]s in the long forward [[struggle]] of [[Urantia]] [[civilization]].
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68:4.7 The [[survival]] of a [[society]] depends chiefly on the [[progressive]] [[evolution]] of its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores mores]. The [[process]] of [[custom]] [[evolution]] grows out of the [[desire]] for [[experimentation]]; new [[ideas]] are put forward—[[competition]] ensues. A [[progressing]] [[civilization]] [[embraces]] the progressive [[idea]] and [[endures]]; time and circumstance finally select the fitter [[group]] for [[survival]]. But this does not mean that each separate and isolated [[change]] in the [[composition]] of [[human]] [[society]] has been for the better. No! indeed no! for there have been many, many [[retrogression]]s in the long forward [[struggle]] of [[Urantia]] [[civilization]].
  
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68:4.1 All modern social institutions arise from the evolution of the primitive customs of your savage ancestors; the conventions of today are the modified and expanded customs of yesterday. What habit is to the individual, custom is to the group; and group customs develop into folkways or tribal traditions—mass conventions. From these early beginnings all of the institutions of present-day human society take their humble origin.

68:4.2 It must be borne in mind that the mores originated in an effort to adjust group living to the conditions of mass existence; the mores were man's first social institution. And all of these tribal reactions grew out of the effort to avoid pain and humiliation while at the same time seeking to enjoy pleasure and power. The origin of [folkways, like the origin of languages, is always unconscious and unintentional and therefore always shrouded in mystery.

68:4.3 Ghost fear drove primitive man to envision the supernatural and thus securely laid the foundations for those powerful social influences of ethics and religion which in turn preserved inviolate the mores and customs of society from generation to generation. The one thing which early established and crystallized the mores was the belief that the dead were jealous of the ways by which they had lived and died; therefore would they visit dire punishment upon those living mortals who dared to treat with careless disdain the rules of living which they had honored when in the flesh. All this is best illustrated by the present reverence of the yellow race for their ancestors. Later developing primitive religion greatly reinforced ghost fear in stabilizing the mores, but advancing civilization has increasingly liberated mankind from the bondage of fear and the slavery of superstition.

68:4.4 Prior to the liberating and liberalizing instruction of the Dalamatia teachers, ancient man was held a helpless victim of the ritual of the mores; the primitive savage was hedged about by an endless ceremonial. Everything he did from the time of awakening in the morning to the moment he fell asleep in his cave at night had to be done just so—in accordance with the folkways of the tribe. He was a slave to the tyranny of usage; his life contained nothing free, spontaneous, or original. There was no natural progress toward a higher mental, moral, or social existence.

68:4.5 Early man was mightily gripped by custom; the savage was a veritable slave to usage; but there have arisen ever and anon those variations from type who have dared to inaugurate new ways of thinking and improved methods of living. Nevertheless, the inertia of primitive man constitutes the biologic safety brake against precipitation too suddenly into the ruinous maladjustment of a too rapidly advancing civilization.

68:4.6 But these customs are not an unmitigated evil; their evolution should continue. It is nearly fatal to the continuance of civilization to undertake their wholesale modification by radical revolution. Custom has been the thread of continuity which has held civilization together. The path of human history is strewn with the remnants of discarded customs and obsolete social practices; but no civilization has endured which abandoned its mores except for the adoption of better and more fit customs.

68:4.7 The survival of a society depends chiefly on the progressive evolution of its mores. The process of custom evolution grows out of the desire for experimentation; new ideas are put forward—competition ensues. A progressing civilization embraces the progressive idea and endures; time and circumstance finally select the fitter group for survival. But this does not mean that each separate and isolated change in the composition of human society has been for the better. No! indeed no! for there have been many, many retrogressions in the long forward struggle of Urantia civilization.

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