Abraham Lincoln invited a guest...
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Abraham Lincoln invited a guest to his house one day. During their conversation they were constantly interrupted by a loud noise emanating from upstairs where the president's two sons were fighting with one another. When the anguing reached crescendo pitch the guest finally asked: "What's the matter with those boys?" Lincoln replied: "Only what's wrong with the whole world. There are three chestnuts and two boys; they're fighting over the odd chestnut."
The problem was essentially one of ownership which Lincoln rightly understood as one of the world's greatest problems. The struggle for land has been one of the driving forces of history. The Hebrew people were among the Semitic tribes who came out of the desert to the south seeking valuable land in the so-called Fertile Crescent of the Near East. When the Israelites under Joshua entered the land of Canaan they believed it was no chance happening, but rather it was the fulfillment of a promise given by God to Abraham ages before their time. It was a "good land" given as a gift from God -- a gift that was to be accepted with gratitude and a sense of responsibility.
-- Hasler
The problem was essentially one of ownership which Lincoln rightly understood as one of the world's greatest problems. The struggle for land has been one of the driving forces of history. The Hebrew people were among the Semitic tribes who came out of the desert to the south seeking valuable land in the so-called Fertile Crescent of the Near East. When the Israelites under Joshua entered the land of Canaan they believed it was no chance happening, but rather it was the fulfillment of a promise given by God to Abraham ages before their time. It was a "good land" given as a gift from God -- a gift that was to be accepted with gratitude and a sense of responsibility.
-- Hasler
