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Excerpt from Studies in European History: Being Academical Addresses Delivered by John Ignatius Von D�llinger, D.D., Late Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Munich
The beginnings of national and political life lie beyond our recollection, yet it is certain that the oldest known form under which they appeared was monarchical, not republican. Now whether this form was of the nature of a patriarchate, the paternal rule in the family, of a theocratic priesthood, a military leadership, or a civil judgeship; or whether, now and then, royalty appeared at the very outset as a pure uncompromising despotism, the preference for mon archy asserts itself as a law in human nature, as the primitive manifestation of political instincts.
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