Purpose and Destiny—Planetary Dispensations (Part 3)

On average worlds, during the latter part of the Planetary Prince’s rule, national life begins to replace tribal organization or rather to be superimposed upon the existing tribal groupings.  But the great social achievement of the prince’s epoch is the emergence of family life.  The idea of chiefly tribal human relationships gradually gives way to the dual concept of national life and family life.

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