The Pharaoh of Egypt was truly the Lord of the triple diadem, but also the supreme Priest in every temple of his land.

So also in Chaldea, in India, and in many another land; and wherever that is the case you find a certain outline given to the civilisation, differing in detail, but marvellously similar in the broad touches of that sketch.

You find that in those days the Priest-King, the Ruler of the land and the supreme Teacher of his people, shaped the polity of the nation as he shaped the doctrines taught in the temples of the religion.

Both the religion and the polity have the keynote of duty.

And always with increasing power there came greater weight of responsibility, heavier burden of duty; and the freest in those civilisations were the poorest.