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accordance with the caprice and will of the monarch. 

 Ambition is crushed. If a man is ambitious, he per- 

 ceives that the best means of attaining his goal is to 

 win the favor of the source of power, and this he can 

 attain by flattery as easily as by merit. This inevit- 

 ably invites corruption of the worst kind, and every 

 nation which has been founded upon this principle 

 has soon become permeated with what in these 

 modern times we call corruption. The patriarchal 

 system inevitably results in despotism. Monarchy 

 is its direct outcome ; competition is destroyed, ambi- 

 tion is crushed, and all stimulus to energetic life is 

 wanting. 



The Weakness of Patriarchal Nations — In the history 

 of nations the result of this has been either destruc- 

 tion or stagnation. 1. Such nations held together so 

 long as valiant generals led them, and war offered 

 the hope of plunder and spoil ; but, as a rule, they did 

 not continue to be world powers. There was no 

 cohesion of parts and usually the great fabric fell to 

 pieces at the first adverse breath. Such has been the 

 history of most of these great nations. They became 

 war powers early in history. Under the influence of 

 the war spirit they grew to extraordinary propor- 

 tions, and expanded perhaps with prodigious rapid- 

 ity. But none of these primitive types of nations has 

 been able to hold its own against more powerful 

 forces arising from different sources, and most of 

 them, after having developed with great rapidity to 

 their zenith, broke to pieces. 2. Some patriarchal 

 nations, however, have not thus broken into frag- 

 ments, as is illustrated by the great nation of China. 

 Here we have the most extreme example known of 

 subordination in the child to the parent and all to 



