The Socialization of Humanity

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Excerpt from The Socialization of Humanity: An Analysis and Synthesis of the Phenomena of Nature, Life, Mind and Society Through the Law of Repetition, A System of Monistic PhilosophyThe world to-day morally is in the same condition as when Buddha of India came to preach a new salvation. Again the blind are leading the blind. It is in the same condition it was in when Jesus of Nazareth preached the Gospel of the Brotherhood of Man. Again unbelievers are putting reform ers to death for impiety. It is in the same condition as when Socrates of Athens taught men how to live. Again do the teachers of men fail to enter into the heaven of Orienta tion prepared for them by the ages and refuse to let anyone else enter, and as in the days of old they add intolerance to their conservatism by persecuting those who attempt to break the incrustations of the past to let the light of truth lead humanity to its ultimate goal. The world is in the same intellectual condition as when Francis Bacon wrote his incom parable works Novum Organum and the Advancement of Learning. To-day collegiate scholarship in the name of science clogs social progress, as in the days of Bacon, in the name of Classic Learning, it stemmed intellectual progress. The world is ripe for a true system of philosophy, for a right system of living.Unlike the world's passage from Polytheism to Mono theism, from Paganism to Christianity, from Feudalism to Capitalism heretofore made, the transition from Theology to Science, from Capitalism to Cooperation will be conscious.In our survey of nature we shall find that it makes no difference with the elements and energies 'of nature how an end is accomplished. And it makes no difference with society. Human perfection, for example, cannot be attained except through property. Primitive humanity did not have it and did not know how to produce it collectively. Hence the race, not being able to originate property by collective ownership, owing to lack of intelligence and morality, ceased to be social, forsook the social acquisition of property and permitted individual ownership because it was the only way open to primitive humanity whereby it could produce the necessary wealth for the highest human development. Even to-day with us wealth can best be produced and conserved by having the capital of the race controlled by individuals, society, despite our boasted intelligence and morality, can not do it, hence privileged classes still usurp this social function. But it will not always be so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.