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The policing of this combined fortress, sanctuary, and treasure house was left, even to the power of life and death, in the hands of the Sadducean hierocracy.

And indeed this is the fatal result of every theocracy, for it can never really be anything but a hierocracy or rule of priests.

According to natural order, Vermont will emerge next, because least, after Rhode Island, under the yoke of hierocracy.

When a hierocracy has been firmly established its evolution always follows similar lines.

The fact that the missionaries are nearly all English puts a slight sufficient chasm between the spiritual and civil powers, and avoids that worst peril of these places—hierocracy.