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70:9.4 What may be regarded as right in one age may not be so regarded in another. The [[survival]] of large numbers of defectives and degenerates is not because they have any [[natural]] [[right]] thus to encumber twentieth-century [[civilization]], but simply because the [[society]] of the age, the [[mores]], thus [[decrees]].

70:9.4 What may be regarded as right in one age may not be so regarded in another. The [[survival]] of large numbers of defectives and degenerates is not because they have any [[natural]] [[right]] thus to encumber twentieth-century [[civilization]], but simply because the [[society]] of the age, the [[mores]], thus [[decrees]].

70:9.5 Few [[human]] [[rights]] were [[recognized]] in the European [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]; then every man belonged to someone else, and rights were only [[privileges]] or [[favors]] granted by [[state]] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church church]. And the revolt from this [[error]] was equally erroneous in that it led to the [[belief]] that all men are born [[equal]].

70:9.5 Few [[human]] [[rights]] were [[recognized]] in the European [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages Middle Ages]; then every man belonged to someone else, and rights were only [[privileges]] or [[favors]] granted by [[state]] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Church church]. And the revolt from this [[error]] was equally erroneous in that it led to the [[belief]] that all men are born [[equal]].

70:9.6 The weak and the inferior have always contended for [[equal]] [[rights]]; they have always insisted that the [[state]] compel the strong and superior to supply their wants and otherwise make good those deficiencies which all too often are the [[natural]] result of their own indifference and indolence.

70:9.6 The weak and the inferior have always contended for [[equal]] [[rights]]; they have always insisted that the [[state]] compel the strong and superior to supply their wants and otherwise make good those deficiencies which all too often are the [[natural]] result of their own indifference and indolence.

70:9.7 But this [[equality]] [[ideal]] is the child of [[civilization]]; it is not found in [[nature]]. Even [[culture]] itself [[demonstrates]] conclusively the [[inherent]] inequality of [[men]] by their very unequal capacity therefor. The sudden and nonevolutionary realization of supposed [[natural]] [[equality]] would quickly throw civilized man back to the crude usages of [[primitive]] ages. [[Society]] cannot offer [[equal]] [[rights]] to all, but it can [[promise]] to [[administer]] the varying rights of each with [[fairness]] and equity. It is the [[business]] and [[duty]] of [[society]] to provide the child of [[nature]] with a fair and peaceful [[opportunity]] to pursue self-[[maintenance]], [[participate]] in [[Reproduction|self-perpetuation]], while at the same time enjoying some measure of [[self-gratification]], the sum of all three [[constituting]] [[human]] [[happiness]].

70:9.7 But this [[equality]] [[ideal]] is the child of [[civilization]]; it is not found in [[nature]]. Even [[culture]] itself [[demonstrates]] conclusively the [[inherent]] inequality of [[men]] by their very unequal capacity therefor. The sudden and nonevolutionary realization of supposed [[natural]] [[equality]] would quickly throw civilized man back to the crude usages of [[primitive]] ages. [[Society]] cannot offer [[equal]] [[rights]] to all, but it can [[promise]] to [[administer]] the varying rights of each with [[fairness]] and equity. It is the [[business]] and [[duty]] of [[society]] to provide the child of [[nature]] with a fair and peaceful [[opportunity]] to pursue self-[[maintenance]], [[participate]] in [[Reproduction|self-perpetuation]], while at the same time enjoying some measure of [[self-gratification]], the sum of all three [[constituting]] [[human]] [[happiness]].

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[[Category:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government]]

[[Category:Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government]]

[[Category: Humanity]]

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