theocratical

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Even in Rome, whose population had a greater tendency for the positive and practical, than for the things of another world, we find the traces of theocratical government.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

A review of the patriarchal condition, in extenso, would lead us to give special attention to the theocratical constitution.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

Education in this theocratical system is on one side patriarchal.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

How ill adapted Christianity would be, even in a political point of view, for a theocratical formula, is well shown by Mr. Guizot, in his Hist. of Civilization, vol. i. p. 213.—H.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

As the author observes, all ancient governments were more or less theocratical.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)