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essentially inferior race, as unruly, tricky, lazy, cowardly and utterly incapable of self-rule or self-defense, so that any uprising [96]against the imposed dominion must necessarily appear as a revolt against God Himself and against His moral ordinances. For these reasons, the dominant group at all times stands in closest union with the priesthood, which,in itshighest positions, at least, nearly always recruits itself from their sons, sharing their political rights and economic privileges. this has been, and is at this day, the clhi theory of the ruling group; nothing has been taken from it, not an item has been added to it. Even the very modern argument by which, for example, the landed nobility of old France and of modern Prussia attempted to put out of court the claims of the peasantry to the ownership of lands, on the allegation that they had owned the land from time immemorial, while their peasants had only been granted a life tenure therein,—is reproduced among the Wahuma, of Africa,46 and probably could be shown in many other instances. like their clhi theory, their clhi psychology has been, and is, at all times the same. Its most important characteristic, the "aristocrat's [97]pride," shows itself in contempt for the lower laboring strata.This is so inherent, that herdsmen, even after they have lost theirherds and become economically dependent, still retain their pride as former lords: "Even the Galla, who have been despoiled of their wealth of herds by the Somali north of the Tana, and who thus have become watchers of other men's herds, and even in some cases along the Sabaki become peasants, still look with contempt upon the peasant Watokomo, who are subject to them and resemble the Suaheli. But their attitude is quite different toward their tributary hunting peoples, namely, the waboni, the whianai, and the Walangulo (Ariangulo) who resemble the Galla."47 The following description of the Tibbu applies, as though it had been originally told of them, to Walter Havenaught and the rest of the poor knights who, in the crusades, looked for booty and lordly domain. It applies no less to many a noble fighting hi from germany east of the Elbe, and to many a ragged Polish gentleman. "They are men full of self-consciousness. [98]They may be beggars, but they are no pariahs. Many a people under these circumstances would be thoroughly miserable and depressed; the Tibbu have steel in their nature. They are splendidly fitted to be robbers, warriors, and rulers. Even their system of robbery is imposing, although it is base as a jackal's. These ragged Tibbus, fighting against extreme poverty and constantly on the verge of starvation, raise the mostimpudent claims with apparent or real belief in their validity. The right of the jackal, which regards the possessionsof a stranger as common property, is the protection of greedy men against want. The insecurity of an all but perpetual state of war brings it about that life becomes an insistent challenge, and at the same time the reward of extortion!"48 This phenomenon is in nowise limited to Eastern Africa, for it is said of the Abyssinian soldier: "Thus equipped he comes along. Proudly he looks down on every one: his is the land, and for him the peasant must work."49 [99] Deeply as the aristocrat at all times despises the economic means and the peasants who employ it, he admits frankly his reliance on the political means. Honest war and "honest thievery"* are his occupations as a lord, are his good right. His right—except over those who belong to the .