Footnotes
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. "It is no improbable opinion, therefore, which the
arch-philosopher was of, That the chief person in every household was always,
as it were, a king; so when numbers of households joined themselves in civil
societies together, kings were the first kind of governors among them, which is
also, as it seemeth, the reason why the name of fathers continued still in
them, who of fathers were made rulers; as also the ancient custom of governors
to do as Melchizedec; and being kings, to exercise the office of priests, which
fathers did, at the first, grew, perhaps, by the same occasion. Howbeit, this
is not the only kind of regimen that has been received in the world. The
inconveniencies of one kind have caused sundry others to be devised, so that,
in a word, all public regimen, of what kind soever, seemeth evidently to have
risen from the deliberate advice, consultation and composition between men,
judging it convenient and behoveful, there being no impossibility in Nature,
considered by itself, but that man might have lived without any public
regimen." Hooker, Eccl. Pol., i. 10.
