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• priests were chief among primitive

69:5.96. Fear of the ghosts of the dead—priest fees for pro­tec­tion. Men early be­gan to give death pres­ents to the priests with a view to hav­ing their prop­erty used to fa­cil­i­tate their prog­ress through the next life. The priest­hoods thus be­came very rich; they were chief among an­cient cap­i­tal­ists.

• herders were the first

69:8.5The herders were the first cap­i­tal­ists; their herds rep­re­sented cap­i­tal, and they lived on the in­ter­est—the nat­u­ral in­crease. And they were dis­in­clined to trust this wealth to the keep­ing of ei­ther slaves or women. But later on they took male pris­on­ers and forced them to cul­ti­vate the soil. This is the early ori­gin of serf­dom—man at­tached to the land. The Africans could eas­ily be taught to till the soil; hence they be­came the great slave race.

• workers becoming shareholders on continental nation

72:5.1The in­dus­trial sit­u­a­tion among this peo­ple is far from their ide­als; cap­i­tal and la­bor still have their trou­bles, but both are be­com­ing ad­justed to the plan of sin­cere co-op­er­a­tion. On this unique con­ti­nent the work­ers are in­creas­ingly be­com­ing share­hold­ers in all in­dus­trial con­cerns; ev­ery in­tel­li­gent la­borer is slowly be­com­ing a small cap­i­tal­ist.