virtues of turbulent democracy. This fact tells on St. Paul’s letters. It was only in a democratic city such as Corinth that those meetings could have taken place in which every member of the Church exercised his gifts in a brawling unmannerly way, and without heeding rules of order and courtesy; it was only in such a community that the parties could have been formed which divided the Church—a community in which a crude sense of equality and independence led men first to jostle together confusedly,