ABSTRACT
Biography and history image experience as struggles in the course of which eaches do join and permeate. Regardless of what creeds powers purport to profess and actually impose, regardless of what codes they pretend to regulate the lives of their subjects by, their peace is the permanent menace of preponderant force; their security is the pervasive exercise of police power, secret and overt. Indeed, long before the voice of the people, the voice of the King, anointed by God’s priests to be also God’s agent and messenger, was heard as the voice of God. He rules by divine right, likewise when, as sardonic Alexander Pope observed, he rules wrongly. To live peacefully and safely, and to fight the wars of God’s anointed in order to win a peace that suits him better must need be worth to the bondsmen the liberty with which they pay for these benefits.
