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No. I am not posing as an authority. Our difference of emphasis is your view and my view. I make three claims. 1. Mankind though replaced more frequently by Humankind is not sexist except in the eye of the beholder. A difference of emphasis. 2. I have no idea which gender invented language or discovered fire or for that matter chipped flint to an edge. I only know this cannot be known. 3. This point is over a root, "archy." I assert and perhaps you do not, that this rule, the power over others, is very well represented by men. I know of no story from Antiquity that has as brutal a woman as Achilles is as a man. Women's governance is not overwhelming iron fist control. Except of course with a few who step into a masculine power role. In general I think the form and substance of social organization is not the rulership of men. Period. I do not insist you are incorrect. Nor that I am. Nor do I mind any misunderstanding arising from our difference, we exchange viewpoints.

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Once man established a faith community history began. Man invents beginnings and endings. In remote antiquity lineages required an origin and legitimization arising from noble blood. In more secular periods our historians speak of the end of history and praise the ruler of the homeland for virtue.

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