¶ Might Makes Right
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Might Makes Right:
“…Now I’ll give you something we can talk about like ‘might makes right.’ And this stone and the compressiveness was really the might. Big massiveness did the trick. And really to understand how man over the ages has been moved by this rather than by his tensile ability… more or less his intellectual ability. And that was very inferior. At best it was only one-tenth of the compressor. Now man gradually learned to take metal out of the stone, and his first thing he made was daggers, that’s all he had. Then he could make some of the bigger swords, then maybe armour as well. They made armour for the head man, then a little armour for several of the soldiers.”
