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Last week's U.N. story starts, properly, with a bearded, 16th Century Frenchman called Jean Bodin, who believed in witchcraft, numerology, astronomy a"nd national sovereignty...
...began a career as a political pundit when a Master of the Mint declared that prices had not risen in France in three centuries. Bodin answered in a sizzling pamphlet showing that in fact prices were going up & up, and God only knew where they would end. After that, he digressed from economics (publishing a treatise on witchcraft called the Demonomania of Sorcerers), and went on to six volumes of political theory, his major work, in which he set down the notion that the state is supreme and inviolable as a matter of natural right. That right, he said, springs...
More. & more people agreed with Bodin until states became so strong that citizens began to limit state powers by bills of rights and, more recently, to attempt to modify sovereignty by international organization...
...Russian position in Paris last week, on which the issue of war or peace heavily depended, had less to do with Marx and Lenin than with Jean Bodin. It was in large measure a pigheaded defense of natsionalny suverenitet unlimited...
Promoter of their work is the Rev. Robert Mackintosh, secretary of the Church's Home Board. Leading organizer is Dundee Minister William Bodin. Employers were not encouraging when he first approached them. They doubted that workers would like to have a parson round the shop all the time. Said Mr. Bodin: "If we help your workers to do a better job, then we help...