Thus we are affected by strength, which is _natural_ power.

The power which arises from institution in kings and commanders, has the same connection with terror.

Sovereigns are frequently addressed with the title of _dread majesty_.

And it may be observed, that young persons, little acquainted with the world, and who have not been used to approach men in power, are commonly struck with an awe which takes away the free use of their faculties.

_When I prepared my seat in the street,_ (says Job,) _the young men saw me, and hid themselves._ Indeed so natural is this timidity with regard to power, and so strongly does it inhere in our constitution, that very few are able to conquer it, but by mixing much in the business of the great world, or by using no small violence to their natural dispositions.