Is civilization a disease?
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Is civilization a disease? - Stanton Coit
Stanton Coit
Is civilization a disease?
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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
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1917
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published May 1917
BARBARA WEINSTOCK
LECTURES ON THE MORALS OF TRADE
This series will contain essays by representative scholars and men of affairs dealing with the various phases of the moral law in its bearing on business life under the new economic order, first delivered at the University of California on the Weinstock foundation.
IS CIVILIZATION A DISEASE?
I. TRADE TYPICAL OF CIVILIZATION
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In choosing The Morals of Trade
as the general title of the Weinstock Lectureship, I am informed that its founder meant the word Trade
to be understood in its comprehensive sense, as commensurate with our whole system of socialized wealth—at least, upon the present occasion I shall interpret it in this broad way.
I shall furthermore ask you to consider our system of socialized wealth—its practice and principles—in relation to the whole of that vast artificial structure of human life which is labelled Civilization,
and which began to prevail some ten thousand years ago. Such a comprehensive sweep of vision is, in my judgment, necessary if we are to view trade in true human perspective; nor can we estimate the degree of praise or blame we ought to confer upon it until we have determined the worth of civilization itself. For trade is not only bound up inextricably with the whole of our social order, but, as it seems to me, manifests in a most acute form the universal character of civilization in general. We must therefore discover the structural principle which began to co-ordinate the lives of any group of human beings when their tribe finally passed out of barbarism. Having discovered this, we shall be able to judge whether by its ever-advancing application to the life of men, and its ever-increasing domination over their wills, it has furthered the cause of ideal humanity or not. If we find that it has been essentially humane, we shall have arrived at the conclusion that its offspring, trade, is moral. If, however, we unearth in the very principle of historic civilization something radically wrong, anti-human and inhuman, and if we can discover another co-ordinating principle which is humane and feasible, civilization will then be seen to be a thing to be superseded
—as Nietzsche thought man himself was—and trade, its latest and lustiest issue, will be felt to be a usurper deserving to be disinherited in favor of some true economic child of the Holy Spirit of Man.
II. IS CIVILIZATION JUST?
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In order to open such lines of anthropological investigation and ethical reflection, I have raised the question: Is Civilization a Disease?
Had I asked, Is Civilization Christian?
I should have defeated my own end. You would have answered No
as soon as you saw the subject of my discourse announced, and would have stayed at home. But you might still have given your ethical sanction to trade. You might have said, It does not pretend to be Christian; but that is nothing against it, for the vital principle of Christianity is sentimental and impracticable: and what won't work can't be right.
Had I raised the question in the form, Could trade ever have emanated from an intelligent motive of universal love—of deference for the humanity in every man?
you would have replied, Never!
But you might have consoled yourself with the thought that it is only a small part of our boasted civilization. We have art and education and family life and monogamy and religion; and these come in as correctives, so that trade, although not conceived of benevolence and not bearing the stamp of humanity in its character, is comparatively harmless under the restraints laid upon it. Then, too, the idea of universal love savors