You will find that all the arguments in favour of kingcraft were of this class; they always bestrode the necks of the people,--not that they wanted to do it, but because the people were better off for being ridden.
Lincoln explains that arguments for monarchy, like those for racial subjugation, always claimed that the people were better off being ruled by a superior power.
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