In the primitive state of society this sentiment takes the force and the depth of a religion.

And the ruler, regarded as divine, really has in relation to his people the power of a god.

Once that people becomes educated in the modern sense, their ideas regarding their ruler and their duties to their ruler necessarily undergo modification.

But does this mean that the sentiment is weakened in the educated class?
I should say that this depends very much upon the quality of the individual mind.
In a mind of small capacity, incapable of receiving the higher forms of thought, it is very likely that the sentiment may be weakened and almost destroyed.

But in the mind of a real thinker, a man of true culture, the sense of loyalty, although changed, is at the same time immensely expanded.