 The Five Thousand Year Leap
30 Year Anniversary Edition - with foreword by Glenn Beck
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No other edition offers the revisions and updates of this remarkable book
detailing how the Founding Fathers used 28 fundamental beliefs to create a
society based on morality, faith and ethics. These principles have made possible more progress in 200 years than
was made previously in over 5,000 years.
Included in this edition are 2 landmark addresses by Dr. W. Cleon Skousen
never before offered in print, along with full text of the US Constitution
and Declaration of Independence.
Also included is the speech given by W. Cleon Skousen "What Is Left? What Is
Right?" on compact disc.
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Excerpt
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Shades of
the Primitive Past
The most striking thing about the settlers of Jamestown was their startling similarity to
the ancient pioneers who built settlements in other parts of the world 5,000 years
earlier. The whole panorama of Jamestown demonstrated how shockingly little progress had
been made by man during all of those fifty centuries.
The settlers of Jamestown had come in a boat no larger and no more commodious than those
of the ancient sea kings. Their tools still consisted of shovel, axe, hoe, and a stick
plow which were only slightly improved over those of China, Egypt, Persia, and Greece.
They harvested their grain and hay-grass with the same primitive scythes. They wore
clothes made of thread spun on a wheel and woven by hand. They thought alcohol was a
staple food. Their medicines were noxious concoctions based on superstition rather than
science. Their transportation was by cart and oxen.
Most of them died young. Out of approximately 9,000 settlers who found their way to old
Jamestown, only about 1,000 survived.
Why Jamestown Was Different
But potentially, Jamestown was different.
It was in Jamestown that communal economics were experimentally tried out by these
European immigrants, who found them to be worse than Plato had described them. Eventually,
it was in Jamestown that a system of free enterprise principles began to filter up through
the years of "starving time" to impress on the settlers those dynamic ideas
which were later refined and developed in Adam Smith's famous book, The Wealth of Nations.
It was among these early settlers of Virginia that a sufficiently large population finally
congregated to permit the setting up of the first popular assembly of legislative
representatives in the western hemisphere. The descendants of these Virginia settlers also
produced many of the foremost intellects who structured the framework for the new
civilization which became known as the United States of America. From among them came
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence; James Madison,
"father" of the Constitution; George Washington, hero general of the War for
Independence; George Mason, author of the first American Bill of Rights in Virginia.
Virginia was the largest of the thirteen colonies, with half-a-million inhabitants, and
she furnished four of the first five Presidents of the United States. |
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