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any occasion, or on the Continent, save on occasion of pen 

 ance. Neither the prostrations and repeated knockings 

 of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshipper, 

 nor the kindred attitude of the Mahommedan at prayers, 

 occurs where freer forms of social institutions, proper to 

 the industrial type, have much qualified the militant type. 

 Even going on the knees as a form of religious homage, 

 has, among ourselves, fallen greatly into disuse; and the 

 most unmilitaiit of our sects, the Quakers, make no relig 

 ious obeisances whatever. 



The connexions thus traced, parallel to connexions al 

 ready traced, are at once seen to be natural on remembering 

 that militant activities, intrinsically coercive, necessitate 

 command and obedience; and that therefore where they 

 predominate, signs of submission are insisted upon. Con 

 versely, industrial activities, whether exemplified in the re 

 lations of employer and employed or of buyer and seller, 

 being carried on under agreement, are intrinsically non- 

 coercive; and therefore, where they predominate, only ful 

 filment of contract is insisted upon: whence results decreas 

 ing use of the sisms of submission. 



