What the Future May Develop 



These ancient nations began like a tiny ocean wave. They 

 gathered momentum and size as they traveled but they finally 

 were dashed upon the rocks and their force destroyed. The 

 history of each succeeding nation represented the progress 

 of Its time but Its end was the same. These nations were 

 not formed by accident or chance, neither were their down- 

 falls caused by accident or chance. Their history was the 

 result of evolutionary laws. Their beginnings and their 

 endings were the results of cause and effect. They had their 

 being under despotic rule where Might made Right — where 

 the Divine Right of Kings asserted — "You work and earn 

 bread and I will eat it, you are My subjects, My slaves. Do 

 as I command for I will forfeit your life if you do not obey 

 me." 



These were times when much of human thought was 

 destructive Instead of constructive; when men were ruled, 

 not for their own good but instead, they were ruled to satisfy 

 the personal ambition and the vanity of those who ruled over 

 them; and when most of human thought was devoted to war 

 and conquest. But as the people became more enlightened, 

 the forms of government changed from one man rule to the 

 rule of many and finally to a rule of the people themselves. 



Democracy is defined as the rule of the people. Experi- 

 ence has shown that this form of government secures the 

 best results for those people capable of efficient self-govern- 

 ment. But Democracy did not come by chance. It came 

 through ages of oppression, tyranny, suffering and blood- 

 shed. The Magna Charta which the barons forced King 

 John to sign at Runnymede In 12 15 is regarded as the most 

 outstanding milestone marking the progress of the people 



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