Previous statesmen had been exercised by things like the common good and public virtue (which usually meant making sure that people played their allotted roles in the divinely established order).

• 政治家也是通过诸如共同利益和公众道德来行使（通常意味着人们必然要在建立神圣秩序的过程中扮演他们被分配的角色）。