Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-12-29

on the contrary, were carried on upon
larger and more important fields OF opera
ton, and with the same fiendish cruelty and
the same ruinous destruction. These ma
tions and kingdoms were constantly en-
gagged in invading, and selling, and ap-
propriating each others territory and con-
tinuously plundering the inhabitants or else
defending and repelling therefrom the in
vaders.. It was forever turmoil and war
fare among these petty nations and king
doms Of an old world out of which the
great kingdoms and empires of antiquity
were eventually cerated and established.
We find here the origin and source of
human thought and deliberations that in
volved questions and subjects that have
since developed into great and accepted
principles which control mankind even now
in their relations to each other, to the
world, and to the Supreme Being Prin-
ciples that were so firmly fixed and estab-
lished as to dominate mankind in it's en-
tire career. Principles that have produced
the systems and methods of activity that
now predominant in the world and bind HUI
mainly as closely to the powers that control
as they did in the days of the aancients
They may: in part at least, be recognized
under certain classiications as follows:
First. That the head of the family is the
unit of authority. And that this unit rep
resents the form Of authority in all estab-
hshed governments. Hence the king holds
all the powers and exercises all the au-
thority Of the nation
Second. That the priesthood was versed
in snpernatural affairs and was the pro-
Indicator of definite knowledge of such
affairs to men, which all the people includ-
ing the king and the nobility were bound
to heed and to obey.
Tt was bv these and various other means
EMPLOYED during the previous centuries
that the priesthood became permanently es-
tablshed and devoted itself and it's follow
ers to superstitious beliefs and idolatrous
worship. These heather priests reduced the
people to a degrading degree of ignorance,
and held them in a slavish serfdom to the
GOVERNING classes The people are still in
Auenced by many Of these superstitious be-
iefs and notions: and are still held in a
firm grasp as dependent subjects of such
overlapping dominant powers
And third, that the rights to hold pos
session OF land by occupancy was reduced
to that Of ownership by the tribe And
from this right has grown the theory of
the ownership Of land by the government
which still continues to be the practice
1t was largely out Of the priesthood re-
lations Of these early days that notwith-
standing much true knowledge came
through them into the world the concep-
tons of the false ideas of things produced
in the human mind had their being And
their development through the ages that
have since elapsed manifest themselves to
us of the present day in the constitutional
elements of our existence
1t is through the false positions held by
them and the ownership of land then as
s"med that has, during the long period of
time through which it has come down to
u.s. and the many changes that have taken
place. brought about and developed MANY
of the evils and burdens which the human
race has still to endure and from which II
still suffers.
(To be Continued)