...inescapable: the social system, like the solar system, cannot hope to survive unless 'degree' is upheld: 'How could communities Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods...sceptres, laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place ?' And the folly of seeking to change the existing system is said to be no less obvious: 'Take but...

...Cressida: The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority and place... O, when degree is shak'd Which is the ladder to all...cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in...

...deracinate ioo The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise...laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, 110 And hark what discord follows! Each thing meets In mere...

...Tudor statesmen are expressed in these lines from Troilus and Cressida:23 O! when degree is shaked Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise...laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! What discord follows; Clausewitz's philosophy...

...la abolición de la jerarquía ("degree") conduce, forzosamente, a una república al revés : ...Oh! when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all...laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere...

...thrown into disharmony by the sudden intervention of reciprocal violence: . . . O when Degree is shaked Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise...laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets In mere...

...the theme of Ulysses' famous speech in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs, The enterprise...sceptres, laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark what discord follows! Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy:...

...(In passing, Shakespeare's awful Old snob is really no relation to Homer's genial odyssean.) . . . O! When degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder to all...laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark! what discord follows . . . This was exalted into...

...reveals both the process and the results of the collapse of differences. . . . O, when degree is shaked, Which is the ladder to all high designs. The enterprise...laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets In mere...

...Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixure. Oh, when degree is shak'd. Which is the ladder to all...sceptres laurels, But by degree stand in authentic place? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows. Each thing meets In mere...