As in aristocratic communities all the citizens occupy fixed positions, one above the other, the result is that each of them always sees a man above himself whose patronage is necessary to him, and below himself another man whose co-operation he may claim.
Gizarte aristokratikoetan, hiritar guztiak postu finkoetan daudenez, batzuk besteen gain, gertatzen da bakoitzak beti ikusten duela bera baino gorago norbait, zeinen babesa beharrezko baitzaio, eta bera baino beherago besteren bat, zeinen laguntza eska baitezake.