Each Individual In A Society

Even Today Few Scientists And Perhaps Even Fewer Nonscientists Realize That Science Is A Method And Nothing Else.

This Priesthood Became A Closed Group, Able To Control Enormous Wealth And Incomes, And Concerned Very Largely With The Study Of The Solar And Astronomical Periodicities On Which There Influence Was Originally Based. With The Surplus Thus Created, The Priesthood Was Able To Command Human Labor In Huge Amounts And To Direct This Labor From The Simple Tillage Of The Peasant Peoples To The Diversified And Specialized Activities That Constitute Civilized Living.

No Slave System Has Ever Been Able To Continue To Function On The Slaves Provided By Its Own Biological Reproduction Because The Rate Of Human Reproduction Is Too Slow And The Expense From Infant Mortality And Years Of Unproductive Upkeep Of The Young Make This Prohibitively Expensive. This Relationship Is One Of The Basic Causes Of The American Civil War, And Was Even More Significant In Destroying Ancient Rome.

The Backwardness Of Our Religious And Social Developments Is Undoubtedly Holding Back The Development Of The Intellectual And Political Levels.

A Civilization Is Complicated, In The First Place, Because It Is Dynamic; That Is, It Is Constantly Changing In The Passage Of Time, Until It Has Perished.