Every
natural sane man wants, though he may want it unwittingly, kingly
guidance, a definite direction for his own partial life. At the
bottom of his heart he feels, even if he does not know it
definitely, that his life is partial. He is driven to join himself
on. He obeys decision and the appearance of strength as a horse
obeys its rider's voice. One thinks of the pride, the uncontrolled
frantic will of this black ape of all Emperors, and one forgets the
universal docility that made him possible. Usurpation is a crime to
which men are tempted by human dirigibility. It is the orderly
peoples who create tyrants, and it is not so much restraint above as
stiff insubordination below that has to be taught to men. There are
kings and tyrannies and imperialisms, simply because of the
unkingliness of men.
And as he sat upon the battlements of La Ferriere, Benham cast off
from his mind his last tolerance for earthly kings and existing
States, and expounded to another human being for the first time this
long-cherished doctrine of his of the Invisible King who is the lord
of human destiny, the spirit of nobility, who will one day take the
sceptre and rule the earth.
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