Source: Law & Liberty
by Brian A Smith
“The principle of human equality is perhaps the most universally accepted dogma of moral life in our world. But this view is quite novel. In A Short History of Relations between Peoples, John M. Ellis crafts an argument that traces this transformation from about 1500 to the present. Ellis opens the book with an example of what he has in mind. The International Chess Federation’s motto — gens una sumus (‘we are one family’) — would have made little sense to most people before the twentieth century.” (10/01/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/the-long-history-of-equality/