MGBE NDỊ MGBA NA-ECHIKE

Harold W. Percival

OKWU

Thinking creates thoughts and thoughts exteriorize as the acts, objects and events which have made and changed the world in which we live, to be what it is.

Tongues and hands were the tools that built up every civilization that ever existed.

Tongues and hands were the tools which tore down and destroyed every civilization that was ever created.

Tongues and hands are the tools that are now building up the civilization that is rising. And this civilization will likewise be destroyed unless the thinking and the thoughts which eduzi the tongues and hands will be for democracy as self-government.

Webster’s dictionary says that self-government is “Self-control; government by joint action of the people constituting a civil body; also state of being so governed; ochichi onye kwuo uche ya."

This work elaborates.

Onye chepụtara

December 1, 1951

Ihe Ntuziaka nke Onye Nkwusa

Mr. Percival’s magnum opus, Echiche na Mbibi, was first published in 1946. Some of the terms in Ulo ochichi onye kwuo uche ya bu ochichi nke onwe such as breath-form and Doer, were first introduced in Echiche na Mbibi. If the reader wishes further elaboration of these terms, they may be accessed in the “Definitions” section of Echiche na Mbibi, which is also available on our website.

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