And  yet   in  both  cases  seeds  were   sown,   ideas  were  born,   sure
to  grow  and  develop,  and  lead  to  an  Age  when  personal  idola-
try will  disappear,   and  the  world  be  able  to  realize  a  sover-
eignty without  the   stupid  and  dangerous  method  of  reverence
for  an  accident.
But  the  archaic  King  did  not  stay  at  home .     His  love
of  war  carried  him  abroad.     Either  because  there  was  some
pressure  behind  him,   or  his  Ismd  grew  too  narrow  for  in-
creasing numbers,  or  he  was  tempted  by   the  hope   of  a  richer
and  sunnier   soil  to  be  had  as  the  prize  of  abattle   or  two,
he  was  always  on  the  move.     Along  the  foot-halls  of  the
Himalayas  he  flowed  into  India:  amiang  the  narrow  valleys
and  mountain  ranges  of  Greece  he  established  new  tribes:
he  overran  Gaul  and  Spain  and  Italy  ^nd  possessed  himself
of  Britain.      Two  things,  bearing  -gipon  the  growth  of  the  Law
and  tending  largely  to  influence   its  diiiection,   arose  out  of
this  restless  and  adventurous  life.     One  was  the   tenure   of
land  resulting  from  victory.     We  have  already  indicated  one
way  in  which  it  was  affected,  and  hinted  perhaps  at  the  more
important   one  which  now  appears.     The  barbarieun  King  as  a
conqueror  did  one   of  two  things.     He  either  exterminated  the


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original  owners,  or  suffered  them  when  submissive  to  remain.
In  either  event  he  parcelled  out  the  land  to  his  followers.
