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polity Noun pl -ties Formal 1. a politically organized state, church, or society 2. a form of government of a state, church, or society [Greek politeia citizenship, from polis city]
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| Thus it will be in nature; for within a confined area, with some place in its polity not so perfectly occupied as might be, natural selection will always tend to preserve all the individuals varying in the right direction, though in different degrees, so as better to fill up the unoccupied place. In the polity of winds, as amongst the tribes of the earth, the real struggle lies between East and West. The spirit of clanship which was, at an early day, introduced into that kingdom, uniting the nobles and their dependants by ties equivalent to those of kindred, rendered the aristocracy a constant overmatch for the power of the monarch, till the incorporation with England subdued its fierce and ungovernable spirit, and reduced it within those rules of subordination which a more rational and more energetic system of civil polity had previously established in the latter kingdom. |
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