Saturday, August 24, 2019

Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream and Our Modern Empire

Just as Daniel interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar (king of Babylon) – about a statue made of four metals with feet of clay – most empires, as ours, rest on such feet of clay, because despite our fairy tales of holy beginnings and royal ancestry, we have all benefited by the acts of scoundrels.

(Our feet of clay, today: Johnson v. McIntosh, 21 U.S. [8 Wheat.]543 [1823].)

Loren M. Lambert © June 22, 2014

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