| 88:3.4 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignia insignia] of [[priest]]ly and [[king]]ly office were [[eventually]] regarded as [[fetishes]], and the fetish of the [[state]] supreme has passed through many [[stages]] of [[development]], from [[clans]] to [[tribes]], from suzerainty to [[sovereignty]], from [[totems]] to flags. Fetish kings have ruled by "divine right," and many other forms of [[government]] have obtained. Men have also made a [[fetish]] of [[democracy]], the exaltation and [[adoration]] of the common man's [[ideas]] when collectively called "[[public]] [[opinion]]." One man's [[opinion]], when taken by itself, is not regarded as worth much, but when many men are collectively [[functioning]] as a [[democracy]], this same mediocre [[judgment]] is held to be the [[arbiter]] of [[justice]] and the [[standard]] of [[righteousness]]. | | 88:3.4 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignia insignia] of [[priest]]ly and [[king]]ly office were [[eventually]] regarded as [[fetishes]], and the fetish of the [[state]] supreme has passed through many [[stages]] of [[development]], from [[clans]] to [[tribes]], from suzerainty to [[sovereignty]], from [[totems]] to flags. Fetish kings have ruled by "divine right," and many other forms of [[government]] have obtained. Men have also made a [[fetish]] of [[democracy]], the exaltation and [[adoration]] of the common man's [[ideas]] when collectively called "[[public]] [[opinion]]." One man's [[opinion]], when taken by itself, is not regarded as worth much, but when many men are collectively [[functioning]] as a [[democracy]], this same mediocre [[judgment]] is held to be the [[arbiter]] of [[justice]] and the [[standard]] of [[righteousness]]. |
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