Excerpt One
How a stand of trees enabled Luxanders to take their first tentative step toward acquiring a valid religion.

Excerpt Two
The strange rites practiced by the Luxanders in veneration of their religious icon, a crude, wooden farm cart.

Excerpt Three
Why the Luxanders invented
a monetary system that conformed to their religious principles and the salutary results thereof.

Excerpt Four
How the Luxanders’ creation
of a competitive species kept overdevelopment in check.