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Timebinder, v. 1, Issue 1, 1944
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or cattle. in fact, many of these highly placed people felt far more concern for their horses than for their slaves or servants. They would see that the killing and torturing of common people was pure sport, done just for the pleasure their sufferings gave to the kingly ones. They would have heard the so-called learned men discussing gravely whether or not common people have a soul, or feelings, or sensibilities. The pupils would study the monuments left by the ancients, on which their carvings boasted of the cruelties of their kings. They would know how thousands of slaves were literally worked to death in days, building the huge palaces, temples, pyramids, and such monuments to the glory of the kings. Then, as the sweep of history advanced, the would see that an occasional great thinker began to ponder the correctness of this theory. They would learn of the results of the teachings of the great religious founders -- Confucius, Buddha, Christ, and others -- how these leaders pointed out that all men were of the same clay, and unalienably inheritors of the same rights, no matter what their political, social or economic standard might be. The great revolutions of various countries, by which the common people fought for, and gained, first one small bit of freedom, and then another, would then have real meaning to these students. They would understand the glorious concepts of those who dared wrest from tyrannical rulers the Magna Carta; the French, Swiss and American Republics ;of the decline and final death of slavery; the acquiring of religious freedom; the rights to education; the rights of all the common people to hold property; the free press -- all these important gains would then become factual, rather than addenda to certain dates or the names of certain rulers or generals. From Gwen Bristow's "Tomorrow is Forever" I get one of the finest answers to WHY? of the onward march of man that I have ever read: "When a new idea is about to be born, nothing under heaven can stop it. Sometimes the fire-and-sword opponents can put it off for a generation or two. Jefferson did lose his fight to get slavery out of this country. it was one of his hardest defeats. But, looking back on those days, we moderns can see that even in Jefferson's time slavery was doomed and no power on earth could have kept it there much longer. . . . When a particular change is on the way, not even a war can do more than delay it; 18
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or cattle. in fact, many of these highly placed people felt far more concern for their horses than for their slaves or servants. They would see that the killing and torturing of common people was pure sport, done just for the pleasure their sufferings gave to the kingly ones. They would have heard the so-called learned men discussing gravely whether or not common people have a soul, or feelings, or sensibilities. The pupils would study the monuments left by the ancients, on which their carvings boasted of the cruelties of their kings. They would know how thousands of slaves were literally worked to death in days, building the huge palaces, temples, pyramids, and such monuments to the glory of the kings. Then, as the sweep of history advanced, the would see that an occasional great thinker began to ponder the correctness of this theory. They would learn of the results of the teachings of the great religious founders -- Confucius, Buddha, Christ, and others -- how these leaders pointed out that all men were of the same clay, and unalienably inheritors of the same rights, no matter what their political, social or economic standard might be. The great revolutions of various countries, by which the common people fought for, and gained, first one small bit of freedom, and then another, would then have real meaning to these students. They would understand the glorious concepts of those who dared wrest from tyrannical rulers the Magna Carta; the French, Swiss and American Republics ;of the decline and final death of slavery; the acquiring of religious freedom; the rights to education; the rights of all the common people to hold property; the free press -- all these important gains would then become factual, rather than addenda to certain dates or the names of certain rulers or generals. From Gwen Bristow's "Tomorrow is Forever" I get one of the finest answers to WHY? of the onward march of man that I have ever read: "When a new idea is about to be born, nothing under heaven can stop it. Sometimes the fire-and-sword opponents can put it off for a generation or two. Jefferson did lose his fight to get slavery out of this country. it was one of his hardest defeats. But, looking back on those days, we moderns can see that even in Jefferson's time slavery was doomed and no power on earth could have kept it there much longer. . . . When a particular change is on the way, not even a war can do more than delay it; 18
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