338 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. 



* The kingship became united with the leadership (become peimanent) 

 of the army, and, as a consequence, raised itself to a power [institution] 

 in the State. The military subordination under the king-leader fur 

 thered political subordination under the king Kingship 



after the invasions is a kingship clothed with supreme rights a kirg- 

 ship in our sense.&quot; 



In like manner it is observed by Eanke that during the wars 

 with the English in the fifteenth century 



&quot;The French monarchy, whilst struggling for its very existence, 

 acquired at the same time, and as the result of the struggle, a firmer 

 organization. The expedients adopted to carry on the contest grew, as 

 in other important cases, to national institutions.&quot; 



And modern instances of the relation between successful 

 militancy and the strengthening of political control, are fur 

 nished by the career of Napoleon and the recent history of 

 the German Empire. 



Headship of the society, then, commonly beginning with 

 the influence gained by the warrior of greatest power, bold 

 ness, and capacity, becomes established where activity in 

 war gives opportunity for his superiority to show itself and 

 to generate subordination ; and thereafter the growth of civil 

 governorship continues primarily related to the exercise of 

 militant functions. 



474. Very erroneous, however, would be the idea formed 

 if no further origin for political headship were named. There 

 is a kind of influence, in some cases operating alone and in 

 other cases cooperating with that above specified, which is all- 

 important. I mean the influence possessed by the medicine 

 man. 



That this arises as early as the other, can scarcely be said ; 

 since, until the ghost-theory takes shape, there is no origin 

 for it. But when belief in the spirits of the dead becomes 

 current, the medicine-man, professing ability to control them, 

 and inspiring faith in his pretensions, is regarded with a 

 fear which prompts obedience. When we read of the 

 Thlinkeets that the u supreme feat of a conjuror s power is to 



