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It was not merely because a people needed a leader that the institution of monarchy came into being. It was also because they needed to develop the quality of veneration, to acknowledge that there was someone or something higher than themselves. It was only another step from looking up to a king to reverencing the highest power--God.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 535