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 ManHE effort to substitute reason for 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 world's history, has had to struggle hard against the mere animal in man, and looking back from the heights of this closing scene of the soth 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 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.