Quote: it is a law of nature that every man acknowledge other for his equal; courser wits gain victory; men can not live in peace if they arrogate more honour to themselves than to others

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1. The question, which is the better man, is determinable only in the estate of government and policy ... [p. 103] And when there was any contention between the finer and the courser wits, (as there hath been often in times of sedition and civil war) for the most part, these latter carried away the victory; and as long as men arrogate to themselves more honour than they give to others, it cannot be imagined, how they can possibly live in peace: and consequently we are to suppose, that for peace sake, nature hath ordained this law, That every man acknowledge other for his equal.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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