LAW HUMAN RIGHTS CIVILIZATION

It required nothing less than a certain distinctive kind of civilization, Western Civiization, (not a Western European village, or a town, or even a nation state, alone) to even so much as conceive of or imagine or bring into being such a notion, and a corresponding state of affairs, as the rule of law; or of such a notion as human rights, right or wrong, and aside from what else, positive or negative, one might say about such terms.