ABSTRACT
The implied change of nature absolves the State from various functions for which it was at first the best agent; and generates for these functions other and better agents. All-embracing State-functions characterize a low social type; and progress to a higher social type is marked by relinquishments of functions. While war was the business of life, while militant organization was imperative, and while coercive rule was needful for disciplining improvident men and curbing their anti-social natures, agencies of a non-governmental kind could not develop. Army-administration is exemplified by the retention of a royal duke as commander-in-chief, by the multiplicity of generals made in satisfaction of class-interests, by promotion that is only in small measure determined by merit.
