762 ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



While the body which maintains the observances of a cult 

 grows in mass, it also increases in structure; and whether 

 the cult is an indigenous or an invading one, there hence 

 results a hierarchy of sacerdotal functionaries analogous in 

 its general principles of organization to the graduated system 

 of political functionaries. In the one case as in the other 

 the differentiation, setting out from a state in which power 

 is distributed with approximate uniformity, advances to a 

 state in which, while the mass becomes entirely subordinate, 

 the controlling agency displays within itself a subordination 

 of the many to the few and to the one. 



