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From: MSN NicknameTheOldGeek1  (Original Message)Sent: 1/24/2004 4:29 PM

Class warfare is not an invention of the Left. Read this from Machiavelli. Class warfare has been invented long ago by The Few Having The Most banding together against the Multitude Having The Least. It is easier for the few banding together than it is for the multitude banding together. For anyone from the multitude to believe in the public rethorics of the Few, it is sure sign that that anyone lacks the wisdom that would prevent him to shoot himself in the foot.

CHAPTER XIII

HOW THE ROMANS SERVED THEMSELVES OF RELIGION TO ESTABLISH THE CITY AND TO CARRY OUT THEIR ENTERPRISES AND STOP TUMULTS

And it does not appear to me outside my purpose to refer to some examples where the Romans served themselves of Religion in order to reorganize the City and to further their enterprises. And although there are many in [the writings of] Titus Livius, none the less I want to content myself with these. The Roman people having created the Tribunes with Consular Power, and all but one [selected from the] Plebs, and pestilence and famine having occurred there that year, and certain prodigies coming to pass, the Nobles used this occasion of the creation of the new Tribunes, saying that the Gods were angered because Rome had ill-used the majesty of its Empire, and that there was no other remedy to placate the Gods than by returning the election of the Tribunes to its own [original] place; from which there resulted that the Plebs frightened by this Religion created all the Tribunes from the [class of the] Nobles.



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     re: ScratchPad   MSN NicknameTheOldGeek1  1/24/2004 4:30 PM
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