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ticular place and for the time being, has to exercise 

 his authority with strictness. Otherwise the rest 

 cannot fulfil their own duties. The policeman has 

 to exercise his authority even over a Prince, as 

 otherwise there might be chaos in the streets and 

 no one would be able to get about his business with 

 surety. The whole people have chosen each for his 

 particular position of authority, and for their benefit 

 expect him to exercise it strictly. 



The people, again, spring from Nature as a 

 whole. They are the representatives of Nature. 

 Those in authority are therefore, in their particular 

 province, for that particular purpose, and for the 

 time being the representatives of Nature. They 

 are accountable to Nature, and Nature expects 

 them as her representatives to exercise authority 

 with wisdom and discretion, but on the same basic 

 principles of absolute fairness and perfect orderli- 

 ness that she herself in her elemental aspects exer- 

 cises her authority. 



Besides obeying authority and exercising 

 authority, men have also to practise leadership. 

 Merely to give and obey orders is nothing like 

 sufficient. In most things a man follows some 

 leader, but in each man there is one thing — his own 

 particular line — in which he can lead. In that line 

 he is expected to qualify himself for leadership, and 

 be prepared to take the risks of high adventure. 

 For it is only through leadership, through someone 

 venturing out beyond the ruck and getting his 

 fellows to follow him, that any progress is made. 

 Mere obedience to authority and exercise of 

 authority never initiate any new departure. These 



