For a great comparison of primitive iron age thinking v Enlightenment thinking consider the French Declaration of the Rights of Man.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
In many ways, superior to our Bill of Rights.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Quote:The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments, have determined to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, unalienable, and sacred rights of man
In many ways, superior to our Bill of Rights.
