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formity with the general laws of Evolution, it differentiates 

 into three great orders at the same time that each of these 

 orders differentiates within itself. 



429. From the beaten dog which, crawling on its 

 belly licks its master s hand, we trace up the general truth 

 that ceremonial forms are naturally initiated by the relation 

 of conqueror and conquered, and the consequent truth that 

 they develop along with the militant type of society. While 

 re-enunciated, this last truth may be conveniently presented 

 under a different aspect. Let us note how the connexion be 

 tween ceremonial and militancy, is shown at once in its rig 

 our, in its defiiiiteness, in its extent, and in its elaborateness. 



&quot; In Fiji, if a chief sees any of his subjects not stooping 

 low enough in his presence, he will kill him on the spot; &quot; 

 while &quot; a vast number of fingers, missing from the hands of 

 men and women, have gone as the fine for disrespectful or 

 awkward conduct.&quot; And then of these same sanguinary 

 and ferociously-governed people, Williams tells us that 

 &quot; not a member of a chief s body, or the commonest acts of 

 his life, are mentioned in ordinary phraseology, but all are 

 hyperbolized.&quot; Africa furnishes a kindred instance of this 

 connexion between, ceremonial rigour and the rigour of 

 despotic power accompanying excessive militancy. In the 

 kingdom of Uganda, where, directed by the king to try a 

 rifle presented to him by Speke, a page went to the door 

 and shot the first man he saw in the distance, and where, as 

 Stanley tells us, under the last king, Suna, five days were 

 occupied in cutting up thirty thousand prisoners who had 

 surrendered; we find that &quot;an officer observed to salute 

 informally is ordered for execution,&quot; while another who, 

 &quot; perhaps, exposes an inch of naked leg whilst squatting, or 

 has his mbugutied contrary to regulations,&quot; &quot; is condemned 

 to the same fate.&quot; And then in Asia a parallel connexion 

 is shown us by the more civilized Siamese, whose adult males 

 are all soldiers, and over whom rules omnipotently a sacred 



