Wonderful excerpt used by Murray Rothbard in his essay 'Education: Free and Compulsory':

"As the Reverend George Harris expressed it:

Savagery is uniformity. The principal distinctions are sex, age, size, and strength. Savages... think alike or not at

all, and converse therefore in monosyllables. There is scarcely any variety, only a horde of men, women, and children. The next higher stage, which is called barbarism, is marked by increased variety of functions.

There is some division of labor, some interchange of thought, better leadership, more intellectual and aesthetic cultivation. The highest stage, which is called civilization, shows the greatest degree of specialization. Distinct functions become more numerous. Mechanical,

commercial, educational, scientific, political, and artistic occupations multiply. The rudimentary societies are

characterized by the likeness of equality; the developed societies are marked by the unlikeness of inequality or variety.

As we go down, monotony; as we go up, variety. As we go down, persons are more alike; as we go up, persons are more unlike, it certainly seems... as though [the] approach to equality is decline towards the conditions of savagery, and as though variety is an advance towards higher civilization.... Certainly, then, if progress is to be made by added satisfactions, there must be even more variety of functions, new and finer differentiations of training and pursuits. Every step of progress means the addition of a human factor that is in some way unlike all existing factors. The progress of civilization, then...must be an increasing

diversification of the individuals that compose society.... There must be articulation of each new invention and art, of fresh knowledge, and of broader application of moral

principles."