في هذا الكتاب محاولة لاختزال ثلاثة آلاف عام من التاريخ الإنساني بقصص منتقاة عن كيفية اكتساب المرء للقوة، أو تفهمه لها من مختلف جوانبها أو حماية نفسه من عسفها وتسلطها أو الحفاظ عليها وممارستها بحكمة وتعقل، أو تحييدها لاتقاء شرّها.
Contemplating the stick creates the impression that it does not mean anything. It is just a whip, thin or thick, depending on the personality and mission of the one carrying it. It may be made of bamboo, the limbs of a tamarisk or brown tree, or anything. It may be expensive, and a person may pick it from the ground. At no cost. But these things that do not mean anything carry meanings, and conjuring up the image of their presence among others may indicate to you that they are very important, and that they are everything to us here. In black Africa, in Australia, and among the inhabitants of the Alps, it is carried by the old, the young, and the elders of the people, and in the hands of the guard and the shepherd, and it is used by the cleric, as well as the magician and the sorcerer, and you find it solid in the military, moved by the music melody of the maestro, and in all parts of the world it is present, and in every tenses
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