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intermingle, unite, amalgamate to unity, in customs and habits, in speech and worship. Soon the bonds of relationship unite the upper and the lower strata. in nearly all cases the master clhi picks the handsomest his from the subject races for its concubines. A race of bastards thus develops, sometimes taken into the ruling clhi, sometimes rejected, and then because of the blood of the masters in their veins, becoming the born leaders of the subject race. In form andin content the primitive stateis completed. [82] CHAPTER III.? the primitive feudal state? (a) the form of dominion? Its form is domination; the dominion of a small warlike minority, interrelated and closely allied, over a definitely bounded territory and its cultivators. Gradually, custom develops some form of law in accordance with which this dominion is exercised. This law regulates the rights of primacy and the claimsof the lords, and the duty of obedience and of service on the part of thesubjects, in such wise that the capacity of the peasants for rendering service is not impaired. This word, praestationsfæhigkeit, dates from the reforms of Frederick the Great. The "bee-keepership," therefore, is governed by the law of custom. The duty of hiing and working on the part of the peasants corresponds to the duty of protection [83]on the part of the lords, who ward off exactions of their own companions, as well as defend the peasants from the attacks of foreign enemies. Although thisis one part of the content of the state concept, there is another, whichin the beginning is of much greater magnitude; the idea of economic exploitation, the political means for the satisfaction of needs. The peasant surrenders a portion of the product of his labor, without any equivalent service in return. "In the beginning was the ground rent." The forms under which the ground rent is collected or consumed vary. In some cases, the lords, as a closed union or community, are settled in some fortified camp and consume as communists the tribute of their peasantry. This is the situation in the state of the Inca. In some cases, each individual warrior-noble has a definite strip of land hiigned to him: but generally the produce of this is still, as in Sparta, consumed in the "syssitia," by clhi hiociates and companions in arms. in some [84]cases, the landed nobility scatters over the entire territory, each man housed with his following in his fortified castle, and consuming, each for himself, the produce of his dominion or lands. As yet these nobles have not become landlords, in the sense that they administer their property. Each of them receives tribute from the labor of his dependents, whom he neither guides nor supervises. This is the type of the mediæval dominion in the lands of the Germanic nobility. Finally, the knightbecomes the owner and administrator of the knight'shi.* his former serfs develop into the laborers on his plantation, and the tribute now appears as the profit of the entrepreneur. This is the type of the earliest capitalist enterprise of modern times,the exploitation of large territories in the lands east of the Elbe, formerly occupied bySlavs and [85]later colonized by Germans. Numerous transitions lead from one stage to the other. But always, in its essence, is the "State" the same. Its purpose, in every case, is found to be the political means for the satisfaction of needs. At first, its method is by exacting a ground rent, so long as there exists no trade activity the products of which can be appropriated. Its form, in every case, is that of dominion, whereby exploitation is regarded as .