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Between Husband and Wife the relation takes the form of

Aristocracy, because he rules by right and in such points only as

the Husband should, and gives to the Wife all that befits her to

have. Where the Husband lords it in everything he changes the

relation into an Oligarchy; because he does it contrary to right

and not as being the better of the two. In some instances the

Wives take the reins of government, being heiresses: here the

rule is carried on not in right of goodness but by reason of

wealth and power, as it is in Oligarchies.

Timocracy finds its type in the relation of Brothers: they being

equal except as to such differences as age introduces: for which

reason, if they are very different in age, the Friendship comes

to be no longer a fraternal one: while Democracy is represented

specially by families which have no head (all being there equal),

or in which the proper head is weak and so every member does that

which is right in his own eyes.

Chapter XI.