Politics an Argument in Favor of the Inalienable Rights of Man (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Politics an Argument in Favor of the Inalienable Rights of Man The effort to substitute reason to force in human government has not been many times seriously attempted in the history of the race, and has been successful in very few instances. Man's development began with his physical or animal nature, and it was but natural therefore, that the attempt at government should have assumed at first the character of force. With the development of the intellect has come a rebellion against a government of force, and a longing for one based upon reason. But the development of the reason, though making immense strides in the 5000 years of the worlds history, has had to struggle hard against the mere animal in man, and looking back from the heights of this closing scene of the 50th century it still looks as if the mere animal was yet in the ascendency, and that the race had not yet secured for itself the domination of its reason in matters governmental, much less the co domination of its spiritual nature. The race is thinking hard, but it thinks largely along the lines of its animal parts, and we have as a result, government based on force with the selfishness of the animal in the ascendancy. In our own land, for a century and a fraction we have been groping around to find some method of getting our reason on top, and holding the animal in subjection. Instinctive justice and our partly educated spiritual nature have made an effort to substitute reason in the government of our people. It has been however, but a halting, lame attempt, and the century is about to close with the experiment only a half success and the dread of a total failure impending like a gloomy cloud over us, while over the larger part of the world the race is still subservient to a government of force. Reason alone seems wholly inadequate to the struggle, and even assisted by the spark of divinity within us for 2000 years, reaches this , 50th cycle of time far from triumphant. But man in his full nature is persistent, progressive, determined and hopeful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.