Throughout the animal kingdom a handful of natural laws dominate the order of life. Times and seasons determine everything. Keep the law of the jungle, and you live. Breaking it equates to death. Natural Selection determines the animal that will get to reproduce, and the one that won't. Humans are not exempt from this rule. We have a knack for manipulating it maybe, but it is yet immutable. What is funny is that America's global success might just be due to this gritty refinement process; natural selection.
At the close of the Renaissance, a new age opened. one of exploration and expansion. Many people, especially in western europe had reached a stage in their national development that enabled surpluses of food and time. Those commodities expanded cultural development and eventually population numbers. Explorers had reported of a new continent across the atlantic that would be suitable to inhabit. The poorer classes, having nothing to lose, ventured upon the high seas to reach a new promised land. Upon arrival a very interesting natural law came into effect: Natural selection.
One of the first colonies in Virginia noticed this phenomenon distinctly. The first colonists there was comprised of disowned quasi-nobles. After the Protestants overthrew Charles I, monarchical supports fled persecution to settle on the American continent. The fallen gentry discovered that roughing it in the wilderness was not the life of luxury they were used to. Homesteads had to be founded or the elements would kill them. Food channels had to be found or hunger would kill them. Natural Selection, therefore, determined who was fit to stay and who had to go. Many of the men refuged to work, trying to mooch off the labors of others. they were able to when surplus existed, but when provisions ran short, the leaches were left to fend for themselves. In only a few months four out of every five men were dead.
Those who were unfit to live were removed from the population. The lazy could not survive. The dependent could not survive. The glutton could not survive. The contentious could not survive. The profligate could not survive. All who were left were they who had the virtue to live: The industrious, the thrifty, the humble, and the controlled. Only these people made it though the filter. Only these people made it though the population bottleneck.
Therefore, only those that nature determined as worthy survived to reproduce, and seeing as this group was the virtuous, this gave rise to generations of virtuous progeny and eventually to a nation comprised of people ho were capable of constitutional government, cars, space travel, and so on. The biological composition of the people was geared for greatness. Natural selection began the process.
At the close of the Renaissance, a new age opened. one of exploration and expansion. Many people, especially in western europe had reached a stage in their national development that enabled surpluses of food and time. Those commodities expanded cultural development and eventually population numbers. Explorers had reported of a new continent across the atlantic that would be suitable to inhabit. The poorer classes, having nothing to lose, ventured upon the high seas to reach a new promised land. Upon arrival a very interesting natural law came into effect: Natural selection.
One of the first colonies in Virginia noticed this phenomenon distinctly. The first colonists there was comprised of disowned quasi-nobles. After the Protestants overthrew Charles I, monarchical supports fled persecution to settle on the American continent. The fallen gentry discovered that roughing it in the wilderness was not the life of luxury they were used to. Homesteads had to be founded or the elements would kill them. Food channels had to be found or hunger would kill them. Natural Selection, therefore, determined who was fit to stay and who had to go. Many of the men refuged to work, trying to mooch off the labors of others. they were able to when surplus existed, but when provisions ran short, the leaches were left to fend for themselves. In only a few months four out of every five men were dead.
Those who were unfit to live were removed from the population. The lazy could not survive. The dependent could not survive. The glutton could not survive. The contentious could not survive. The profligate could not survive. All who were left were they who had the virtue to live: The industrious, the thrifty, the humble, and the controlled. Only these people made it though the filter. Only these people made it though the population bottleneck.Therefore, only those that nature determined as worthy survived to reproduce, and seeing as this group was the virtuous, this gave rise to generations of virtuous progeny and eventually to a nation comprised of people ho were capable of constitutional government, cars, space travel, and so on. The biological composition of the people was geared for greatness. Natural selection began the process.
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