ABSTRACT
We have been considering hitherto the sentiments which are the most important psychological sources of power: tradition, especially in the form of respect for priests and kings; fear and personal ambition, which are the sources of naked power; the substitution of a new creed for an old one, which is the source of revolutionary power; and the interactions between creeds and other sources of power. We come now to a new department of our subject: the study of the organisations through which power is exercised, considered first as organisms with a life of their own, their in relation to their forms of government, and finally as affecting the lives of the individuals who compose them. In this section of our subject, organisms are to be considered as far as possible without regard to their purposes, in the way in which men are considered in anatomy and biochemistry.
