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The more unsafe the world is felt to be, then the more important protection is, and the more threatening, expression. Repression becomes the order of the day. The species however will always react against repression, no matter what its source, and so will the individual. On the whole the species is beginning to change its psychological sense of selfhood. There are periods in history when this happened before, and a new kind of civilization resulted. The earliest Jewish traditions represent one such change. The beginning period of the Egyptian civilization another, the birth of Christ another, and the beginning of the scientific age.

(11:07.) Coping became a way of life in each civilization. Alongside, however, there were always minorities, religions or cultures, who kept out of the main current and experimented along different lines. The idea of a safe universe seems sacriligious and impractical, and yet the next important breakthrough will be based upon that conclusion. In greater terms no coping is or ever has been necessary—for coping implies a resistance. The coping exists first, and brings forth the resistance in experience.