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social authority, which served as a bond to unite the 

 numerous disjointed fragments which composed the 

 early nations. This patriarchal system was the char- 

 acteristic of all those nations which earliest showed a 

 power of advance. It led to a wonderfully rapid 

 organization of larger and larger groups. It led by 

 easy and increasingly rapid steps to the development 

 of an Oriental nation. 



Growth of Patriarchal Nations. — Under this principle 

 of hereditar}'- leadership the growth of a nation was 

 easy and rapid. In the early periods of human his- 

 tory the world must have been peopled with thou- 

 sands of small tribes, isolated from each other, each 

 with its own chieftain, and in constant warfare with 

 one another. The love of power and the desire for 

 glory which have ever influenced man were suffi- 

 ciently powerful motives for keeping these primitive 

 nations in conflict. In the incessant conflict some of 

 the tribes would be overthrown by others. If such 

 tribes were simply held together by a bond of a 

 common chieftain, it frequently followed that when 

 the tribe was overthrown and its king captured the 

 allegiance of the common people was transferred to 

 the conqueror. The vanishing of a king was the 

 transference of a kingdom, and the victor's power 

 was increased, by the addition of the conquered 

 people to his own. The conquered tribe was some- 

 times reduced to slavery, but it was frequently incor- 

 porated with the conquerors to form a larger nation. 

 Tribes, bred in the notion of being subservient to a 

 leader, would simply transfer their allegiance to a 

 new leader, and a new kingdom, composed of the 

 several older ones, would again present a solid or- 

 ganization of greater size for future conquests. 



