By Sima Qian
Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) used to be the 1st significant chinese language historian. His "Shiji," or "Records of the Grand Historian," records the heritage of China and its neighboring nations from the traditional previous to his personal time. those 3 volumes hide the Qin and Han dynasties.
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Now consider these questions: Did the Orientals invent the stirrup ? Do people and chimpanzees have common ancestors ? In contrast to strictly scientific questions, these two are essentially historical. Their answers lie in the past, which cannot be recovered. Naturally, we have more confidence in scientific answers than we do in historical ones. Failure to distinguish these two classes of statements has produced unnecessary conflicts in America during the 20th century. Stricdy speaking, the second italicized question should, like the first, be dealt with in the history departments of universities.
Such rights are called natural rights. In our day, it is almost a foregone conclusion that people will try to solve every controversial problem by calling on rights. But rights, as the demographer Paul Demeny has pointed out, "are almost empty of content. " And local conditions almost always bring scale into the picture. For example, pedestrians, walking at a slow pace on an uncrowded sidewalk, can insist on their right to walk where they please: no great harm will be done to the community. By contrast, it is suicidal for the drivers of our multitudinous automobiles to insist on the right to drive on the left or the right, as suits their fancy.
2. " 3. " These statements all say pretty much the same thing. Every proposal to reform the details of our world is sure to set in train processes that many people are not emotionally prepared to deal with. 1-' The innocence of the childhood of humanity is at an end. From now on, we must accept responsibility for all the unintended consequences while doing our best to predict them in advance; and avoid them— generally by truly conservative action, which has not been fashionable for the past two centuries.