592 , POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



extends itself : compulsory charity having generated impro 

 vidence, there comes compulsory insurance as a remedy for 

 the improvidence. Other proclivities towards institutions 

 belonging to the militant type, are seen in the increasing 

 demand for some form of protection, and in the lamentations 

 uttered by the &quot; society papers &quot; that duelling has gone out 

 Nay, even through the party which by position and function 

 is antagonistic to militancy, we see that militant discipline is 

 spreading ; for the caucus-system, established for the better 

 organization of liberalism, is one which necessarily, in a 

 greater or less degree, centralizes authority and controls 

 individual action. 



Besides seeing, then, that the traits to be inferred a priori 

 as characterizing the militant type, constantly exist in 

 societies which are permanently militant in high deg^es, we 

 also see that in other societies incren.se of militant activity is 

 followed by development of such traits. 



560. In some places I have stated, and in other places 

 implied, that a necessary relation exists between the structure 

 of a society and the natures of its citizens. Here it will be 

 well to observe in detail the characters proper to, and 

 habitually exemplified by, the members of a typically militant 

 society. 



Other things equal, a society will be successful in war in 

 proportion as its members are endowed with bodily vigour 

 and courage. And, on the average, among conflicting societies 

 there will be a survival and spread of those in which the 

 physical and mental powers called for in battle, are not only 

 most marked but also most honoured. Egyptian and Assyrian 

 sculptures and inscriptions, show us that prowess was the 

 thing above all others thought most worthy of record. Of 

 the words good, just, &c., as used by the ancient Greeks, 

 Grote remarks that they &quot; signify the man of birth, wealth, 

 influence and daring, whose arm is strong to destroy or ti 

 protect, whatever may be the turn of his moral sentiments ; 



