Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
CHAPTER FIVE

itself to people as safe and sem
sible way of running a government
I should like TO stress the word
safe" for men came to live to-
gether for just exactly one purpose
They hoped that united front"
would assure them greater safety
than the individual action of those
days when they had still been wan
dererS across the face of this earth,
finding shelter against the violence
of the climate and the hunger Of
the other beasts of the fields. in
some deserted cave.
We still know very little about
the first governmental arrange
mentS" of our ancestors of the Stone
Age. That is 4 pity, for during that
endless stretch of years that goes
back all the way TO the last of the
glacial periods. all sorts of traits
were del eloped which still dominate
our own daily behavior.
Well. those who make speciality
OF prehistoric history now seem TO
have come to the fairly general con-
clusion that man did not start out
as herd animal but as a con
firmed individualist.
OF course. in the beginning. homo
Sapiens was exposed to so many
dangers. I've was still SO completely
defenseleSs against the feroclous
animals which roamed the wilder
ness. which had been left behind
by the retreating glaciers that the
percentage of those who survived
was exceedingly low.
Lack of food had forced the crea-
ture TO eat his fellow-men and the
practice OF canribaliSm tthen as
now seems to have a most detri-
mental effect upon the number OF
people who reach manhood or Wom-
anhood. For further details, visit
the interior Of New Guinea)
And SO the. world was inhabited
by small groups of wanderers, one
male. perhaps half dozen females
and ten or twelve children, for the
death-rate among the young ones
must have been as high as that on
the ships of Admiral Nelson.
Gradually, as we know from mod
crn observations among some of
the more remote islands of the
Pacific ana from our studies among
the aborigineS of Australia, two or
three men and their Womenfolk and
offspring combined into regular
tribe"
When we use that word. We un-
consciously think of the tribes of
Israel or the Indian tribes which
used to roam our plains. And we
envisage hundreds of men and Wom-
Cn. led by some patriarch or chief
tain. accompanied by hordeS of chill
dren and cattle and building them
selves teEt-villages whenever they
found new grazing fields or con-
venlent fishing waters.
But in order to get a clear idea
CT g prehiotori. tribe we should once
more visit a spot like New Guinea.
where prehistoric conditions have
most clearly maintained themselves.
There tribes will be found con-
sisting of not more than dozen or
perhaps two dozen people and they
miSerably trek from one part OF the
forests to the next, living in con-
slant fear of slow starvation or sud-
uen death ami they are as helpless
and hopeless group Of people as
Cne can imagine. Even more hope
less and helpless. for western man
finds it almost impossible TO recog-
nize many human traits in these
our brethren beneath the skin.
Indeed, most of the bands of ami
mails of the jungle seem TO fare
better than these distant cousins
of ours. Yet they must have very
close resemblance to our ancestors
up to the moment they discovered
that they would have a better
chance Of survival if they followed
the example of some of the wild
beasts. with whom they shared this
earth, and combined for action.
At what moment they took that
mighty step forward, VIC do not
know. but therein lay tho bc2innin"
Ot an forms of political OrganiIa-
tion
The individual at last recognized
his own weakness and like the clc-
phantc. tho wolves and the deer. he
made common cause with the mem
bcrS Of his own species and began
to live in herds and packs. Small
herds and packs. but 1t vas only
beginning and out of that beginning
VIC got our modern super states.
CHAPTER SIX
The people OF the Middle Ages en-
jUycd one great advantage over our
own time.
They not Only had TO work for a
living but there was only one way
IN which they could If they were
:ortunateD hope to make that living
They had to dis in the soil, and az
that soil. from the outrageous treat
mont it had received for almost a
thousand Erars was completely eX-
b. ueted th"y Lad 70 dig very hard
That LETT them little spare time fOI
,rNtompl1tlOn. and the few who
O"ed ~ indulge in that eXpcnsiv-
.g%urY were buried in some cloiStc.
nd a. faithful members of the old
-.t ot all tOtalitarian state"-thn
pcr-omprc Of thH Church tho
}rr" very dcI.nitelY conscious Of
~" Ianu@ imposed upon their pol
t.c4i sp"culatiOns.
But tAcy hau already been shrewd
nougn to di2covcr the tremcndou,
"a" Of quotes" To quot SOM
nc means thai you namo another
Jcron O. the authority for a Ger
IN stnt' m"nt or opinion which you
narlt IN your own writings
TGe mcd a-vai writer upon tn
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