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order, the word echoing through that opening paragraph.
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Well, put Dudley and the Homily on Obedience together
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and you've got a world which certainly
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had certain communitarian ideals, the commonwealth,
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but one in which it was also assumed that those ideals
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were best served by maintaining a sort of graduated ladder
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of authority and subordination
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within each one of the degrees of society.
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And indeed the three degrees
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as Dudley described them can be shuffled together
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into a single rank order of precedence,
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as they were when people went on processions, for example.