Human Society

From time to time, various theories have been propounded regarding the origin of human society . Until the epoch-making discoveries of natural science, all the theories about the origin of hman society were rooted in religion .Laws for governing human behaviour and social combat wer promulgated either on the authority of God or an abstract Moral Principle . Later on, the democratic doctrine of the sovereignty of the people came to be the fundamental principle of legislation . Reason replaced God as the condition for the challenge to the divine right of kings . But even then, great ignorance prevailed not only regardin the origin , but even about the causes of the evolution of human society .
The origion of society can be traced far into the darkness of antiquity , and the long process of human evolution through the wilderness of time could be visualised clearly only in the light of modern science .Not until the nineteenth century , man had any clear idea about his original ancestry and progress from savagery to civilisation through the vicissitudes of history .