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pendently. Thus special gold-centres develop, which are able 

 to control the exchange of goods over a wide area. 



The amassing of the gold-stream in the hands of a few 



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individuals gives these a great advantage over their fellows 

 in the community, and may result in injury to the com- 

 munity as a whole. 



The community, however, has organs of its own which 

 determine its peculiar framework, and they are called on to 

 safeguard the normal course of tlie functions against the 

 encroachments of individuals. Such are the organs of the 

 administration of justice and of government, and to these is 

 allotted, as executive organ, the police. 



While we may compare the stream of goods and the stream 

 of gold with the streams of blood and fluids in the body, the 

 organs of the administration of justice and of government 

 form the bones of the community, which, by their stability, 

 serve as support for the ever-changing streams of goods 

 and gold. 



If fixed rules for government and the administration of 

 justice had developed in a community, and the individual 

 beings forming these organs automatically accommodated 

 themselves to these rules, it is possible that the community 

 might get on without further centralisation, provided that the 

 earth on which it had grown furnished it with all the necessary 



