Excerpt: ...myself! -but let us analyse the reasons why." "Discuss-discuss!" cried Paul Zouche; "Why are kings hated? Let Thord answer first!" "Yes-yes! Let Thord answer first!" was echoed a dozen times. Thord, thus appealed to, looked up. His melancholy deep eyes were sombre, yet full of fire, -lonely eyes they were, yearning for love. "Why are kings hated?" he repeated; "Because today they are the effete representatives of an effete system. I can quite imagine that if, as in olden times, kings had maintained a position of ...
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Excerpt: ...myself! -but let us analyse the reasons why." "Discuss-discuss!" cried Paul Zouche; "Why are kings hated? Let Thord answer first!" "Yes-yes! Let Thord answer first!" was echoed a dozen times. Thord, thus appealed to, looked up. His melancholy deep eyes were sombre, yet full of fire, -lonely eyes they were, yearning for love. "Why are kings hated?" he repeated; "Because today they are the effete representatives of an effete system. I can quite imagine that if, as in olden times, kings had maintained a position of personal bravery, and personal influence on their subjects, they would have been as much beloved as they are now despised. But what we have to see and to recognise is this: in one land we hear of a sovereign who speculates hand-and-glove with low-born Jew contractors and tradesmen, -another monarch makes no secret of his desire to profit financially out of a gambling hell started in his dominions, -another makes his domestic affairs the subject of newspaper comment, -another is always apostrophising the Almighty in public;-another is insane or stupid, - and so on through the whole gamut. Is it not natural that an intelligent People should resent the fact that their visibly governing head is a gambler, or a voluptuary? Myself, I think the growing unpopularity of kings is the result of their incapability for kingship." "Now let me speak!" cried Paul Zouche excitedly; "There is another root to the matter, -a root like that of a certain tropical orchid, which according to superstition, is shaped like a man, and utters a shriek when it is pulled out of the earth! Pull out this screaming mystery, - hatred of kings! In the first place it is because they are hateful in themselves, -because they have been brought up and educated to take an immeasurable and all-absorbing interest in their own identity, rather than in the lives, hopes and aims of their subjects. In the second-as soon as they occupy thrones, they become overbearing to...
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