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Excerpt from Union Foundations: A Study of American Nationality as a Fact of Science In a nation, the governing centralizations are the ganglions the representative agencies which inform and prompt to action are the afferent nerves, and the executive agencies which en force law are the e'erent nerves. A single absolute head, a patriarch or barbaric king, forms a one-ganglion government. A multitude of heads essentially independent, a league of barons bound only by some outside pressure, is analogous to animals having many ganglions Of like function, such as the inferior articulata. When one baron among many grows to superior strength and inuence, he becomes the cephalic gan glion, head or king. When his dynasty is established and its strength fully acknowledged, the brain-predominance becomes fixed and a high, articulate structure appears. As the subor dinate repositories of political power take special state functions, the vertebrate structure appears. When deliberate legislation on wise, constitutional foundations supervenes, the function of the cerebrum is typified, and pure mind frames the measures which dominant will energizes as effective law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.