Well we gave up on the other book temporarily, here is the one which i have been working on since...it is just a part of the prologue, prettly much the opening para:
"The man invented weapons, didn’t he? Well let us assume he did. The question is why did he? A good number of people believe that the reason was to kill. First the prey, then the fellow men and so on, well that definitely seems to have been the initial purpose. But later on the weapons were tamed, intimidated and tampered to become meager tools. But the weapons were never really put out of business. The man seldom needed them, or as Confucius says ‘He who…’ well whatever… the point is the man seldom needed them afterwards. But there is this instinct, shall we say, that kept pulling him to feuds, and trust a man to fight with bare hands…hmmm. But think of it this way, most of us now believe that the weapons/tools are not just for killing. Only most of us…"