All manners of conditions and superstitions may affect and alter the course of social development in various places.
There is no doubt, however, that in the maternal stage of social evolution women had an influence in domestic, religious, and social matters much greater than they had at many later stages of social development.
Promiscuity is apt to be found at a higher stage of social development, and is especially apt to be found among the nature peoples after the white man has visited them and demoralized their family life.
In this text we shall make particular use of the family, as the simplest and, in many ways, the most typical of all the forms of human association, to illustrate concretely the laws and principles of social development.
These facts tend to throw light on some of the dark questions of social development in its early stages.
Philosophers have long held a theory of social development according to which men were at first hunters, then shepherds, and lastly agriculturists.
Regarded as a project of social development, Syndicalism is ridiculous; regarded as an illuminating and unintentionally ironical complement to the implicit theories of our present social order, it is worthy of close attention.
The home is the cradle of all the virtues, but we are in a stage of social development where we need virtues beyond the cradle size.
Human needs, in remote low stages of social development, were met by privately owned labourers.
With Laveleye, Schaeffle also detects in the changed character of the family of our days the effect of social development.
Nevertheless, the tenure of agricultural land and its cultivation is of high importance to social development.
This fact is so general that a law of social development may be recognized therein.
As in Athens, the transition from the mother to the father-right was everywhere achieved so soon as a certain height was reached in social development.
The root of the whole difficulty, with regard to our theories of cause and effect in social development, as with regard to our theories of cause and effect in other parts of nature, lies in our desire for unity and simplicity.
We cannot assert that "genuine altruism" is the normal case, even of the present period of social development, and certainly not when we are considering morality as an evolution.
When this accumulation extends beyond the individual, it implies a social development, and explains the enormous changes wrought within historical times, and which define the difference between the savage and the civilized man.
We have already discussed the relationship ofsocial development to the restriction of the idea of property (chap.
Man, when he entered these countries, was apparently already at the Neolithic stage of social development.
For the immediate purpose this peaceable cultural stage may be taken to mark the initial phase of social development.
Some fighting, it is safe to say, would be met with at any early stage of social development.
The readjustments of these relations for the better adaptation of one individual to another, or of either to their environment, make up the process of social development.
The process of social development for a time may intensify conflict, but there comes a time when it is made clear to the dullest mind that conflict must give way to mutual adaptation.
Given beings of this kind, placed on a globe of such diversified surface and climate as this, and it is evident that, even with equal capacity, and an equal start, social development must be very different.
It must explain clearly and definitely, and not by vague generalities or superficial analogies, why, though mankind started presumably with the same capacities and at the same time, there now exist such wide differences in social development.
Schaeffle also recognizes the changed nature of the modern family as a result of social development.
This fact is so general that it may be regarded as a law of social development.
But if, as I believe, the fighting activities belong to an early and truly primitive stage of social development, then the view would be very different.
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