CHAPTER TILL 



ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHIES. 



? G16. THE component institutions of each society habi 

 tually exhibit kindred traits of structure. Where the poli 

 tical organization is but little developed, there is but little 

 development of the ecclesiastical organization ; while along 

 with a centralized coercive civil rule there goes a religious 

 rule no less centralized and coercive. Qualifications of this 

 statement required to meet changes caused in the one case 

 by revolutions and in the other case by substitutions of 

 creeds, do not seriously affect it. Along with the restoration of 

 equilibrium the alliance begins again to assert itself. 



Before contemplating ecclesiastical hierarchies considered 

 in themselves, let us, then, note more specifically how these 

 two organizations, originally identical, preserve for a long 

 time a unity of nature consequent on their common origin. 



617. As above implied, this relation is primarily illus 

 trated by the cases in which, along with unsettled civil 

 institutions there go unsettled religious institutions. The 

 accounts given of the Nagas by Stewart and by Butler, which 

 are to the effect that they &quot; have no kind of internal govern 

 ment,&quot; and have apparently no priesthood, show also that 

 along with their disregard of human authority, they show 

 extremely little respect to such gods as they recognize 

 after a fashion : dealing with beings in the spirit-world 

 as defiantly as they do with living men. Of the Comanches, 



