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instead of being, as they claim to be, the expressions Book n 

 of a profound truth, related to truth only as being 

 direct inversions of it. Whatever appearances may 

 seem to show to the contrary, it is the few and not 

 the many who, in the domain of economic -produc- 

 tion, are essentially and permanently the chief re- 

 positories of power. That this is so in the domain 

 of intellect we have seen already. We will now 

 turn our attention to the domain of political govern- 

 ment, and consider the part played by the excep- 

 tional few there the nature and origin of their 

 power, and the means by which it is exercised. 



