When an event is taking place people express their opinions and
wishes about it, and as the event results from the collective
activity of many people, some one of the opinions or wishes
expressed is sure to be fulfilled if but approximately. When one
of the opinions expressed is fulfilled, that opinion gets
connected with the event as a command preceding it. Men are
hauling a log. Each of them expresses his opinion as to how and
where to haul it. They haul the log away, and it happens that
this is done as one of them said. He ordered it. There we have
command and power in their primary form. The man who worked most
with his hands could not think so much about what he was doing,
or reflect on or command what would result from the common
activity; while the man who commanded more would evidently work
less with his hands on account of his greater verbal activity.
When some larger concourse of men direct their activity to a
common aim there is a yet sharper division of those who, because
their activity is given t