Those who were regarded as the children of the national household were ever cared for with extremest care.

The very fact that they were the lowest in development gave them the greatest claim on the divine Man who ruled, so that all through the note of those civilisations is the note which to-day would be called socialistic--with one enormous difference, that the most wise ruled.

The result, in a sense, would be the result that the Socialist dreams of, the absence of poverty, the universality of some form of work done for the State as a whole, a duty of each man to bear a share of the burden; but the burden grew lighter and lighter as it came downwards to the younger members of the family, of the nation; the duty the most burdensome was placed on the highest.

And you will find that, while still the tradition remained, it was very difficult sometimes to get rulers and governors of large States and small.

It comes out in the Chinese books.