theocracy, n.All

A Theocracy (n.) uniting ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠church and state, so often praised as the ideal, already exists in Oriental despotism — where the self-conscious state is absent.

A Theocracy (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠men's first government: it takes a long time for feeling to change enough that men will accept their equals as masters.

A Theocracy (n.) lets ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the reconciled church rule the unreconciled world, takes that world's passions into itself, and breeds a worldliness devoid of spirit inside the church.