The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man, and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to cooperate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall in to mutual animosities that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
I chose this statement because it reminded me just how long civil conflict has been going on whether in religion, government, education and rights. It seems like time doesn't change much. In that time when we were a young nation and many opinions and idea came to shape our today, we still had strong opposition. It makes me wonder, were the parties that won strong because of lack of communication, property owning and illiteracy and the smaller parties were unable to sustain there faction.
Today, not much has change, we are still over powered in government by those who have, the high rate of illiteracy in our schools; we have plenty of communication but not the right amount of people on the same page.
Having the same problems of the past, as today, details two problems one is obvious, people are always going to have opinion conflicts. Two, and more importantly we must find a way to come to agreed on these conflict for the better of mankind.
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