The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c15.56

c15.56

This conception of the dignity of man is evident, again, in the principles of recall and plebiscite that the *Śukra-nîti* advocates. In cases of conflict between the king's officers and the subjects the king is advised to take the side of the people. He is to "dismiss the officers who are accused by one hundred men."¹ The truth *vox populi vox dei* was thus known to Hindus also. They have here given expression to the Confucian *mores* preserved in the *Shu-king*.² "The great God", said the super-man of China, "has conferred *even on the inferior people* a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right."