And it was natural, inevitable, with such a conception of Nature and of God, that the Master, the Founder, of a religion should unite in His sole person the office alike of the Priest and of the King.

And so you find it.

The only likeness in modern days is not now a very fortunate one in the eyes of many--the King-Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

For so ill had the duties of the King been performed in that high seat, that the people lost the sense of the divinity, and revolted against it, and cast it off, and left that Pontiff shorn of his royal character.

But far back in the old civilisations, in the one person the two offices were united.