Talk:Judge and Punish Constellation

Hence we get a second axiom : No society can exist and he developed without a priesthood in some form or other. All men equally stand in need of such a power for education and for counsel. The priest hood alone can give a sanction to the governor and protect tlie governed. It is the regular moderating power in public life, as women are in private life, not forgetting, however, that both public and private life demand a continuous concurrence of moral influence and intellectual power. You may express all the social attributions of the priesthood by adopting the biblical name. Judge. It has a threefold office, to advise, to consecrate, to regulate. It discharges the three by judging, and its judgment is the expression of an opinion which all respect.

(Comte, 2008:279-80).