On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: > "just". We can often see, for instance in peasant revolts, the idea that the > king only needed to be properly informed to put an immediate end to all > evil. If he only knew how the peasants were being ill-treated, he would > order it to stop. In this basic concept logically enough the fairy story is Interesting. The most notable example in the 20th century of appealing to royalty on this basis was the march led by Father Gapon which was suppressed by the Cossacks. Maybe that's why trusting in royalty went out of popularity and socialism started to grow. Louis P.
