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ship is to command the actions of others, the larger Book i 



part of the progressive activities of peace, and the 



arts and products of civilisation, result from and The great 



imply the influence of kings and leaders, in essentially c^ precisely' 



the same sense as do the successes of primitive war, 



the only difference being that the kings are here 



more numerous, and though they do not wear any 



arms or uniforms, are incomparably more autocratic 



than the kings and czars who do. 



As a particularly clear illustration of this im- 

 portant truth, let us take Mr. Spencer himself, and 

 place him before his own eyes as an autocratic king 

 or ruler. In certain respects he is so; and it is only 

 because he is so that he has been able to give, 

 through his books, his thoughts and theories to the 

 world. For let us examine any one of his volumes Mr. spencer, 

 and consider what it is, in so far as it differs from 

 any other volume let us say from a treatise on the 

 cutting of trousers, or an attack on the Spencerian books into 

 philosophy which is printed in similar type on 

 pages of the same size. It differs solely in the 

 order in which the letters have been arranged by 

 the hands of the compositors ; and its value as a 

 work of philosophy consequently depends altogether 

 on a certain complicated series of movements which 

 the hands of the compositors have made. And how 

 has this prolonged series of minute movements been 

 secured ? It has been secured by the fact that Mr. 

 Herbert Spencer, through his manuscript, has given 

 the compositors a prolonged series of orders, which 

 their hands, day after day, have been obliged to obey 



