To Be Self-Evident: The Universal History of How Libertas Has Irreversibly Improved the Human Condition

In this remarkable debut, R.L. Hogan provides an expansive, yet readable and down-to-earth explanation of the progress of the human species. Humans evolved very slowly until the development of agriculture about 10,000 years ago. Agriculture created the conditions necessary for the development of civilizations. We have been taught history as a chronicle of the many varied civilizations over the previous 5,500 years of recorded events.

The physical and biological components of humans have not...