Posted on 12/12/2019 11:35:26 AM PST by Perseverando
Yale President Ezra Stiles stated in 1783:
"Most states of all ages ... have been founded in rapacity, usurpation and injustice ...
The Nimrods ... (were) the first invading tyrants of the ancient ages ... The spirit of conquest had changed the first governments ...
All succeeding ones have in general proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost 4,000 years."
The first invention ever was the plow.
The Bible tells that Cain was a "tiller of the soil."
Then people started hitting each other with them and they turned into weapons.
British philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in Leviathan (1651), wrote of man in his primitive state:
"Every man is enemy to every man ... men live without other security, than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them ... no culture ... no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Insecurity for life and property caused people to gravitate together for protection.
In situations like this, when people get together for defense, someone knows how to fight better than the rest and everyone says, you be our captain.
The captain organizes everyone, they fight, they win. That is a good thing.
Then this captain has sons and grandsons who claim to be an elite family, a political machine, doling out favors in exchange for support, with one family member acting as a political boss, a gang leader, a despot, a king.
Even if a king concentrates power for the purpose of doing good, after he dies, that power is passed on to
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“Yale President Ezra Stiles stated in 1783”
Unlikely that any recent Yale presidents have said anything of value.
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