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...look at the spread of industrial civilization throughout the world, we find that its chief cause was the overwhelming military superiority of the industrialized over unindustrialized states." CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Except for the hunt, intertribal warfare was mankind's first significantly large collective action. In this respect, Andreski says, the organization required to set up armies served as a useful model for government. Andreski cites as one example the development of the infantry phalanx by the ancient Greeks. Individual force was pooled into collective force-a lesson writ large in the philosophy of mass democracy. DEMOCRACY. War is a great...