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Supremacy and equilibrium are the two poles of the politics of every military society. Generally, the re-establishment of the compromised equilibrium is only the pretext, of which the gain- ing of supremacy is the end. This is well known for in these societies the internal instability can find a remedy only in the exploitation of neighboring societies t just as the interior inequal- ity cannot be maintained except by the exploitation of the inferior classes of slaves, serfs, or hirelings. The most radical con- quest is that where the conquered group is purely and simply transformed into a caste exclusively devoted to productive and peaceful occupation, under the direction, and to the profit, of the conquering caste. In military societies the strata or classes, are also marked as are the frontiers, conforming to the law we have noted, and according to which the external structure is always correlative to the internal organization and composition.

G. DE GREEF.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

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