Human Nature, Ch. VIII

3. ... Power simply is no more but the excess of the power of one above that of another ; for equal powers opposed destroy one another ; and such their opposition is called contention. (Human Nature, Ch. VIII, § 4, à la fin).

4. ... And the acknouiedgment of power is called honour ; and to honour a man inwardly, is to conçoive or acknowledge that that man hath the odds or excess of that power above him with whom he contendeth or compareth himsef. (Human Nature r C» VIII, § 5, circa principium).