for there are among them many men who have no children, and many barren women whose connections lead to nothing, so that they grow old in childlessness.


We must therefore eradicate evil opinions from the mind, and all other ideas which are not devoted to God.


This, then, is enough to say on these subjects. A TREATISE ON MONARCHY. BOOK I. But we must now turn to the special and particular laws; and first of all to those which relate to those people by whom it is well to be governed, those which have been enacted concerning monarchy.

 Yonge, following Mangey, lists this as: A TREATISE ON MONARCHY. BOOK I. 
 

 Some persons have conceived that the sun, and the moon, and the other stars are independent gods, to whom they have attributed the causes of all things that exist. But Moses was well aware that the world was created, and was like a very large city, having rulers and subjects in it; the rulers being all the bodies which are in heaven, such as planets and fixed stars; and the subjects being all the natures








 
beneath the moon, hovering in the air and adjacent to the earth. But that the rulers aforesaid are not independent and absolute, but are the viceroys of one supreme Being, the Father of all, in imitation of whom they administer with propriety and success the charge committed to their care, as he also presides over all created things in strict accordance with justice and with law.


Others, on the contrary, who have not discovered the supreme Governor, who thus rules everything, have attributed the causes of the different things which exist in the world to the subordinate powers, as if they had brought them to pass by their own independent act. But the most sacred lawgiver changes their ignorance into knowledge, speaking in the following manner: "Thou shalt not, when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, be led astray and fall down and worship them." Deuteronomy iv. 19. With great felicity and propriety has he here called the reception of these bodies as gods, an error;