CHAPTEE XYII. 



THE MILITANT TYPE OF SOCIETY. 



547. Preceding chapters have prepared the way for 

 framing conceptions of the two fundamentally-unlike kinds 

 of political organization, proper to the militant life and the 

 industrial life, respectively. It will be instructive here to 

 arrange in coherent order, those traits of the militant type 

 already incidentally marked, and to join with them various 

 dependent traits ; and in the next chapter to deal in like 

 manner with the traits of the industrial type. 



During social evolution there has habitually been a min 

 gling of the two. But we shall find that, alike in theory arid 

 in fact, it is possible to trace with due clearness those oppo 

 site characters which distinguish them in their respective 

 complete developments. Especially is the nature of the 

 organization which accompanies chronic militancy, capable of 

 being inferred d priori and proved a posteriori to exist in 

 numerous cases. While the nature of the organization 

 accompanying pure industrialism, of which at present we 

 have little experience, will be made clear by contrast ; and 

 such illustrations as exist of progress towards it will become 

 recognizable. 



Two liabilities to error must be guarded against. We have 

 to deal with societies compounded and re-compounded in 

 various degrees ; and we have to deal with societies which, 

 differing in their stages of culture, have their structures 

 elaborated to different extents. We shall be misled, there 

 fore, unless our comparisons are such as take account of un- 

 likenesses in size and in civilization. Clearly, characteristics 

 of the militant type which admit of being displayed by a vast 



