Trade and other such ideas were not very vital to the Indians since everything they needed was provided by nature. ... Also, their definition of ownership was based off of their life of sustenance. ... They conformed to the land rather than forcing the land to conform to them. ...
It is indeed true that our definition of reality is not entirely accurate. ... We all understand that an object at rest will not randomly jump into the air unless an outside force causes it to. ... Pierre Simon de Laplace wrote: "An intellect which at any given moment know all the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that comprise it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit its data to analysis, it could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom: for such an intellect nothing could be ...
