"No longer constrained by the checks and balances of survival in nature, populations are now controlled by social class. A class system arises out of the necessitites of agriculture. For agriculture to work, you need to have a concept of property. For a concept of property to work, you need to have a state. For a state to work, you need to have armies to defend it. Consequently, developed agricultural societies evolve a new mythology featuring three classes of deities-deities who stand respectively for the functions of priest, farmer, and warrior." The Art of Memory p. 21-22
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