monocracy

Updated: June 3, 2025

What Roman incorporation meant for the ancient world was at last revealed. The war havoc of seven centuries had found its justification. Their purblind spite was powerless to avert the inevitable advent of monocracy. What they did effectually extinguish for more than a century, was the possibility of amnesty, conciliation, and mutual confidence.

- Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 : A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more : than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

True, it gave way at last to philosophy; but it had recognized those elements of thought on which philosophy was based. The Persian and Hebrew systems expressed more definitely the idea of a divine monocracy, and lent themselves easily to the formation of a religious society, a church, but they did not escape the limitations of mere national feeling.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV