A Supreme Force protects
one
The
ordeals a man faces in the world, the perils, which may cause, his very
destruction and the problems, which confront him almost every minute. Should
enable him to realize that there is a Supreme unseen force that protects him
even without his knowledge. Man may not be aware as to how he is being saved.
It is to make him understand about God’s inimitable traits that Scriptures are
full of episodes dealing with this extreme compassion, generosity, and several
other noble traits. By listening to the spirit of devotion. He may gradually
approach God and ultimately plead with Him to be released from worldly bondage.
As
we all know that man has come a long way from his beginning. Not enough can be
said about the laps made by him is physical, sexual and technological areas,
leaving his ancestors way behind.
Fortunately,
in the last million years or so, vital changes began to take place. Our
ancestors become more upright better runners. Their hands freed from locomotive
duties, become strong, efficient weapon holders. Their brains become more
complex- brighter, quicker decision takers. Their bodies become hairless,
probably as a physically well equipped. A hunting ape was in the making.
Because this hunting Apes battle was to be won by brain rather than brawn, some
evolutionary steps had to be taken to increase his brain- power.
A
young Chimpanzee completes its brain growth within twelve months after birth,
six or seven years before the animal becomes reproductively active. Our own
species by contrast has at birth a brain which is only 23 % of its final adult
size, for you and me, brain growth is prolonged into adult life; continuing for
about ten years after we have attained sexual maturity.
The
naked Ape therefore was given plenty of time to imitate and learn before he had
to go out and survive on his own. His parents could teach him as no animal had
ever been taught before. He begins using artificial Weapons instead of natural
ones. Because physically, he was less fit for obtaining food than the other
carnivores. He became a co-operative pack hunter to survive. A home base was
necessary. A place to come back to with the spoils where the female and their
young ones could share the food. Parental behaviour of this kind had to be a
new development. For the general primate rule is that virtually all-parental
care comes from the mother.
So
the hunting ape becomes the territorial ape, and because of the extremely long
period of dependency of the young, the female found themselves almost
perpetually confined to be home base. In this respect the hunting ape’s new way
of life posed a special problem, one that it did not share with the typical
“Pure” carnivores, the role of sexes had to become more distinct.
The
hunting parties had to become all male groups. If anything was going to against
the primate grain, It was this, for a virile primate male to go off on a
feeding trip and leave his females unprotected from the advances of other males
was unheard of and demanded a major shift in social behaviour.
The
answer was the development of a pair bond, male and female hunting apes had to
remain faithful to one another. This is a common tendency among primates; it
solved three problems in one stroke. It means that the female remained faithful
to their males while they were away on the hunt, reduction of serious sexual
revelries among the males and the growth of a one male one female breeding
unit. Soon ape becomes an ape with responsibilities. In mere half million
years, he progressed from making a fire to making a spacecraft. It is an
existing story, but the naked ape is in danger of being dazzled by and
forgetting that beneath the surface he is still a primate.
Sexually,
the naked ape today finds himself in a somewhat confusing situation. Because of
the importance of the pair bond, he is the sexiest primate alive. How was this
done? The period of the sexual receptivity of the female monkey or ape usually
lasts for only about a week of her monthly cycle. In our own species, the
female is receptive at virtually all times, even when she is pregnant.
In
condition, sexual activities have been elaborated. The hunting life that gave
us naked skins and more sometimes hands has given us much greater scope for
sexually simulating body to body contact. Our private sexual system with its
carnivore modifications has survived our fantastic technological advances
remarkably well. Yet despite all this advances, we naked apes are still very
much a simple biological phenomenon. Our climb to the top has been a get rich
quick story, unless we can colonize other planets on a massive scale and spread
the load, we shall crowed out all other forms of life from the earth in the not
too distant future. At the end of the 17th century, the world population of
naked ape was only 500 million. It has now risen to almost 3,700 million. The
consequence is obvious, sheer quantity. If we do this we can continue to
progress technologically in dramatic way without denying out evolutionary
inheritance. If we do not then our suppressed biological urges will buildup and
up until the dam bursts and the whole of our existence are swept away in the
flood.
Human
being, have been evolving slowly through out history. They have improved
enormously in intellect over the years and have shown great potential for
further improvement. What they have not done to rid themselves entirely of their
original animal cruelty and selfishness. We are mysterious creatures, half
animals, and half intellectual in nature. If our minds achieved mastery over
our bodies, we should have the capability to get control of our world and
manage it successfully.
We
are becoming more intelligent and more capable, but our world is becoming more
complex and difficult. The story of civilization in constant, convergence with
everything is getting- closer and closer. But there is also constant education,
which is part of the convergence. Civilization is a race between education
catastrophes what we have to do in the present and the future, as this great
race continues, is to make sure the education wins.
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