ABSTRACT
The law of compensation played a large role in the dissemination of Christianity at the end of the second and beginning of the third century. The fact that the realization of every great thing in social life is often connected to terrible trials, and that only sometimes, thanks to these trials and to the suffering of its defendants, does it acquire final acknowledgement, is based on the same law of compensation. The process of communication by signs and symbols is also based on the principle of compensation or substitution. The sign or signal in social life plays the role of a symbol; gestures and the spoken word are essentially symbols of surrounding phenomena or of certain interactions and actions. The significance of signal in the social conditions of human life is acquired, as in individual life, through the experience and training of members of the collective.
