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DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\n## ORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD\n\nReproductions may not be made without permission tfom Columbia University Libraries.              \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nREDUCTION RATIQ:      9:/  \nFILM SIZE:            35mm  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IAC IIA1  \nINITIALS:                  PB  \nDATE FILMED:                    6-5-97  \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                                    23437  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \nLIFE  \n# INSURANCEIS LIGHT\n\nAN ADDRESS byDARWIN P.KINGSLEY  \nSEPTEMBER,1926  \nA  \n能X19  \n2016  \n分rgDnaneleu rM·Bwln9-27.26  \n# LIFE INSURANCEIS LIGHT\n\nn  \nIFE INSURANCE has notachieved its present leadershipamongst the social and financialforces of the world by any accident norby any succession of accidents.  \nIt was not a clever plan,thrown to-gether to meet an emergency.It was notan“invention”.It was not the out-giving of a group of “uplifters”.  \nIt is the natural product of the lawswhich control the wonders of both thevisible and the invisible universe,and anindispensable part of that supreme flowerof evolution,human society.  \nSociety in what we loosely call theAnglo-Saxon world has discovered,andthat recently,that Life Insurance is asinherent in the program of a free,self-governing people as sound morals and  \nLife Insurance is Light  \nwise laws,as necessary to orderedsocial progress as research in pure scienceis to the control and elimination of disease.Research in pure science and the develop-ments of Life Insurance have progressedalong kindred lines.  \nDiscoveries in pure science are possibleonly if we have laboratories and,moreimportant still,the labor of enthusiastic,keen-visioned,self-sacrificing men.  \nThe laboratories of Life Insurance arethe infinite and mysterious action andreaction of human life.The keen-vis-ioned scientists who have labored thereare that little group of crusaders andadventurers—some of whom are stillliving—together with youand your prede-cessors,who have not only preached thisEvangel in season and out of season,buthave studied human reactions and theproblems of human development as care-fully and as scientifically as any scientistever studied the contents of his test tubesand retorts.  \nNaturally,Life Insurance first de-veloped in a large way on this continent  \nLife Insurance is Lighl  \nwhere men first won full recognition oftheir manhood as well as of their spiritualrights,where men first became captainsof their own souls.Until that victorywas won human life had little more valuethan sticks and stones.   When mandiscovered (and Life Insurance helpedhim to make that discovery)that therewas no real value in things,no value inforests or lands or mines,except as theyfound expression in terms of human life;when man discovered(and Life Insurancewas again his teacher)that all value wasin himself,the living,dreaming,fighting,thinking animal,he was transformed andthe world was transformed.  \nConscious of newand expanding powers,master of himself and of things,man be-came as Hamlet puts it,  \n“In apprehension how like a God”.  \nBut while he became godlike in hisapprehension he remained a man in hislength of years.He could and did buildinto the social structure some of thevalues he had created,but he could notbuild himself in.  \n## Life Insurance is Light\n\nHis value to his family,to his businessand to the state became entirely dis-proportionate to his span of life.If hewas disabled he ceased to be a source ofpower and frequently became a burden,and all the more a burden because he hadbeen so useful.Ifhe died prematurely thewhole structure which he had so proudlybuilt,crashed in ruins.  \nDeath instantly matured all his obliga-tions and at the same instant destroyedhis greatest asset.  \nHow then could he keep the socialcontract?","cbCaia9Qp7AGKBak","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia9Qp7AGKBak","pdf",854325,18,"English","# Life Insurance is Light\n## Life Insurance is Light\n## Life Insurance is Light","[{\"question\":\"Why does the address claim life insurance is more than an accident or a plan?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that life insurance arises from the natural laws governing the visible and invisible universe, making it a necessary product of human societal evolution rather than a mere emergency measure.\"},{\"question\":\"What social problem does the address associate with disability and death?\",\"answer\":\"It states that disability and premature death disrupt family, business, and state structures, destroy the greatest asset of the individual, and create a disproportionate collapse in social and economic value.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the address propose life insurance should respond to death and disability?\",\"answer\":\"It describes life insurance as a contractual solution that links increased human value to the future, reducing the disaster caused by disability and death and protecting the continuity of what the individual has built.\"}]","Life Insurance is Light | PDF",1789965030,45]