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*"Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual '''sovereignty''' of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the '''Most Highs''' rule in the kingdoms of men.  

*"Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual '''sovereignty''' of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the '''Most Highs''' rule in the kingdoms of men.  

*"This rule of the '''Most Highs''' in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any favored group of people. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the '''Most Highs''', the over controllers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.  

*"This rule of the '''Most Highs''' in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any favored group of people. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the '''Most Highs''', the over controllers of '''political''' evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time.  

*"'''Sovereignty''' is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power -- the family -- and the final consummation of political growth -- the '''government''' of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.

*"'''Sovereignty''' is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of '''political''' power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of '''political''' organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of '''political''' power -- the family -- and the final consummation of political growth -- the '''government''' of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.

*“Starting out with parental power in the family group, political '''sovereignty''' evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans that become united, for various reasons, into tribal units -- super consanguineous political groupings. Then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire.  

*“Starting out with parental power in the family group, '''political sovereignty''' evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans that become united, for various reasons, into tribal units -- super consanguineous '''political''' groupings. Then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire.  

*"As '''sovereignty''' passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding '''sovereignty''' become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major '''wars''', world-wide conflicts. So-called '''sovereign''' nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating '''wars'''.

*"As '''sovereignty''' passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding '''sovereignty''' become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly '''sovereign nations''' come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major '''wars''', world-wide conflicts. So-called '''sovereign nations''' cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating '''wars'''.

*“The difficulty in the evolution of political '''sovereignty''' from the family to all mankind lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the '''sovereignty''' of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political '''sovereignty''' is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the "scaffolding stages" of the previous developments in political organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty that makes possible the evolution of the tribe makes difficult the evolution of the super tribe -- the territorial state. The same loyalty (patriotism) that makes possible the evolution of the territorial state vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the '''government''' of all mankind.

*“The difficulty in the evolution of '''political sovereignty''' from the family to all mankind lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the '''sovereignty''' of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of '''political sovereignty''' is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the "scaffolding stages" of the previous developments in '''political''' organization. This is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty that makes possible the evolution of the tribe makes difficult the evolution of the super tribe -- the territorial state. The same loyalty (patriotism) that makes possible the evolution of the territorial state vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the '''government''' of all mankind.