Yes, indeed -- "of cabbages and kings." The thing you need to know about the former is to "[p]lant [the] recommended variety", and that, as with churches and many other things under the sun, "[e]xcess water taken up ... causes head to burst."
As for the latter, let us speak of kings in black robes, and of ministers in bright vestments. We are ruled by five of the former, and from time to time there are more of them -- up to nine, in all. They wield a prodigious power over our society, in both manners and morals. The power they have is a tyrannical one, because once exercised, it cannot easily be thwarted or reversed. And yet, in this democracy of ours, they are not elected, and once in their robes, they serve for life.
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