controlled by forces outside himself and can do nothing to improve his lot in life. Therefore, he needed a king or leader to guide and control him. In this stagnant world, with no hope of progress, men must be herded into a collective mass, a bee hive, and controlled. This pagan view was dominant for nearly 6,000 years of recorded history with the result that hunger and famine remained a common foe for most of the inhabitants of earth. Progress was so slow that, until the time of George Washington, the best thing that man could come up with for transportation was the horse drawn coach, and that could only be afforded by the rich. Then something amazing happened. The Old World pagan concepts were rejected, resulting in more progress toward a better way of life in less than 200 years than the accumulated progress of 6,000 years. The events leading up to this quantum leap forward actually began on the American Continent as far back as 1660. It was during this time that the colonies began to rebel against the pagan Old World View of a planned economy. Charles II had signed an act allowing the American Colonies to ship cotton, lumber, tobacco, and other products to England, but only to England, nowhere else. The colonists needed sugar and molasses from the West Indies (Cuba). Therefore, they just ignored the King's decree and kept on trading wool and tobacco for sugar and molasses. A few of the traders' ships were sunk by 60 The Secret Side of History