Excerpt from The Whole Works of Xenophon, Vol. 1: Translated
I have heretofore considered how many popular governments have been dissolved by men who choose to lire under any other sort of government rather than the popular; and how many monarchies, and how many oligarchies, have been destroyed by the people; and how many of those who hare attempted tyrrnn-niee have, some of them, been instantly and entirely destroyed; and others, if they have continued reigning but for any time, hare been, admired as able, wise and happy men. And I thought I observed many masters, in their own private houses, some possessing more servants, some but very few, who yet were not able to preserve those few entirely obedient to their commands. I considered withal that keepers of oxen, and keepers of horses are, as it were the magistrates and rulers of those oxen and horses; and, in general, all those called pastors or herdsmen may be properly accounted the magistrates of the animals they rule. I saw, I thought, all these several herds more willing to obey their pastors, than men their magistrates; for these herds go the way that their keepers direct them; they feed on those lands on which their keepers place them; they abstain from those from which their keepers drive them; they suffer their keepers to make what use they please of the fruits and profits that arise from them. Besides, I never did perceive a herd conspiring against its keepers, either so as not to obey them, or so as not to allow them the use of the fruits arising from them.
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