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to such static monopolies. The struggles between those who
exercised power over the hearts of men and those who sought
to control the physical resources of nations were not of one
time and place. In the Old Testament, just this kind of struggle
is reported in the Book of Samuel (I, viii) when the children of
Israel besought Samuel to give them a king. Samuel explained
to them the nature of kingly, as opposed to priestly, rule:
This will be the manner of the King that shall reign
over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto
him for his chariots; and they shall run before his
chariots: and he will appoint them unto him for captains
of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some
to plough his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to
make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his
chariots. And he will take your daughters to be