IV. THE SUPPLY OF KINGS. Traces in legend of a custom of compelling men to accept the fatal sovereignty, False conceptions of the primitive kingship, The modern European fear of death not shared in an equal degree by other races, Men of other races willing to sacrifice their lives for motives which seem to the modern European wholly inadequate, Indifference to death displayed in antiquity by the Thracians, Gauls, and Romans, and in modern times by the Chinese, Error of judging all men's fear of death by our own, Probability that in many races it would be easy to find men who would accept a kingdom on condition of being killed at the end of a short reign.
