ABSTRACT
Some kind of government was needed, but the power that went with governing divided the community, so that the interests of power began to prevail over the community. The conflict thus generated has gone on through all history. The curbing of power is never secure. In modern civilization power is protean and takes unexpected shapes. New forms of the organization of interests create new concentrations of power. New advances of science and technology make possible more formidable and far-reaching controls over the minds of men. Irresponsible power, the power that tramples human rights, enthrones itself in the collectivity. The state, in its abstract immortality, becomes the justification for the death of the people. It is well in such times that we should gain and steadfastly keep, against all the ideologists and sycophants of power, a clear understanding of the principle of human rights.
