Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy

CHAPTER I

THE KING’S PLEASAUNCE

“In the beginning,” so we are told, “God made the heavens and the earth.”

The statement is simple and terse; it is evidently intended to be wholly comprehensive. Its decisive, almost abrupt tone would seem to forbid either question or argument. The old-world narrator of the sublime event thus briefly chronicled was a poet of no mean qualit...