what are the classical antecedants of this? they have been compared to guardian angels. one of the earliest of such is the guardian angel protectecting the people of the treaty, michael who bars balem from going to place wheere he will be paid to place a curse on them. angels were presented as servant spirits who guarded man and then their was the genie of alladi's lamp type. one pohilosopher, speaking tohte country club, the harvard types of the day, stated that eudamonia is happiness is security, security for onself, one's friend's, and all the descendants of these as far into the future as can be forseen. This is best guarrranteed by democracy he states. sparta outlasted all the other classsical greek city states because it had a dual chief executiveship: in its case dual kings who ruled on alternate years. each in his year of service would consult with the other be cause he would have had an aversion to being reversed next year by the other. ther cherokees had dual cheif executives in the form of a peace cheir, who could be a man of a woman, and a war cheif who had to be a man. the chrokees, of the cherokee-iroquois langage group, were the only amerindain tribe to invent on their own a written alphabet, build baptist churches, grist mills, north european style log cabins, european farm animals and a european life style. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"