The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c15.s2.25

c15.s2.25

(and not a "sovereign") of the Chinese Micians and "the monarch who follows his own will",¹ "a thief in the form of a ruler",¹ "the enemy of virtue, morality and strength",¹ etc. of the Hindu radicals. The *Śukranîti* is quite at one with the *Politics* of Aristotle in its investigation of the "abuses" to which monarchy degenerates under "abnormal" conditions. And neither Isidore of Seville under the influence probably of Stoic teachings nor John of Salisbury² in the *Policraticus* makes out a more pronounced antithesis between the king and the tyrant than does Manu or Śukra.