[…] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.

I fear the power of Percy is too weak / To wage an instant trial with the King.

In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a natural and ethnically pure community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties.

In passing from 'A Conference of the Powers' to Stalky, then, we see how genuine experience and observations can be crudened and distorted by their conversion or partial conversion into propagandist fable—a process all too frequent in Kipling's art.