i-i 1 KOGKESS: ITS LAW AND CAUSE. 



or from subjects to their ruler, either human or divine 

 expressions that were afterwards used to propitiate subor 

 dinate authorities, and slowly descended into ordinary inter 

 course. All modes of salutation were once obeisances madu 

 before the monarch and used in worship of him after his 

 death. Presently others of the god-descended race were sim 

 ilarly saluted ; and by decrees some of the salutations have 

 become the due of all.* Thus, no sooner does the originally 

 homogeneous social mass differentiate into the governed and 

 the governing parts, than this last exhibits an incipient dif 

 ferentiation into religious and secular Church and State ; 

 while at the same time there begins to be differentiated 

 from both, that less definite species of government which 

 rules our daily intercourse a species of government which, 

 as we may see in heralds colleges, in books of the peerage, 

 in masters of ceremonies, is not without a certain embodi 

 ment of its own. Each of these is itself subject to succes 

 sive differentiations. In the course of ages, there arises, as 

 among ourselves, a highly complex political organization of 

 monarch, ministers, lords and commons, with their subor 

 dinate administrative departments, courts of justice, reve 

 nue ofticcs, &c., supplemented in the provinces by munici 

 pal governments, county governments, parish or union gov 

 ernments all of them more or less elaborated. By its side 

 there grows up a highly complex religious organization, 

 with its various grades of officials, from archbishops down 

 to sextons, its colleges, convocations, ecclesiastical courts, 

 &c. ; to all which must be added the ever multiplying inde 

 pendent sects, each with its general and local authorities. 

 And at the same time there is developed a highly complex 

 aggregation of customs, manners, and temporary fashions, 

 enforced by society at large, and serving to control those 



* For dctaik il proof of those abortions FCC cssiy on Xfanntrt ana 

 Fashion. 



