In the chapter (which I am not quoting here out of copyright concerns) Duchesne explains how Neolithic societies were actually more stratified than pastoral societies, with the example being monarchism and the willingness to recognize the monarch (i.e. "aristocracy" in the truest sense of the word) as superior. Yet Duchesne criticizes this as "despotism" and "subservience", and contrasts it with the supposed hubristic "aristocratic" (i.e. Achillean) attitude of unwillingness to recognize a superior out of thirst for personal glory.