Is civilization a disease?. Stanton Coit

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066191283

      Table of Contents

       IS CIVILIZATION A DISEASE?

       I. TRADE TYPICAL OF CIVILIZATION

       II. IS CIVILIZATION JUST?

       III. A METAPHORICAL USE OF THE WORD "DISEASE"

       IV. OUTLINE OF MY ARGUMENT

       V. MAN VERSUS CIVILIZATION

       VI. THE LIVING FOUNDATIONS

       VII. CIVILIZATION CONDEMNED BY CHRIST AND ALL SONS OF MAN

       VIII. TWO INSTANCES OF CIVILIZATION

       IX. THE AGE OF THE FOUNDATIONS AT HAND

       X. A NEW STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLE

       XI. EDWARD CARPENTER'S INDICTMENT OF CIVILIZATION

       XII. CARPENTER'S FALSE REMEDY

       XIII. SPEECH AND FIRE

       XIV. THE TWO MARKS OF ALL CIVILIZATION

       XV. ARROWS AND EARTHENWARE

       XVI. ANIMALS TAMED AND IRON SMELTED

       XVII. CIVILIZATION PROPER

       XVIII. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AFTER CHRIST

       XIX. CIVILIZATION FACES ITS SUCCESSOR

       XX. AGAINST THE MATERIALISTIC VIEW OF HISTORY

       XXI. CONTACT OF PEOPLES

       XXII. THE POWER TO TRANSMIT HUMAN LIFE, ITS SOCIAL CONTROL

       XXIII. FOREIGN TRADE THE BEGETTER OF WARS

       XXIV. THE OPPOSITE OF A "RETURN TO NATURE"