[Dragaera] Need a passage from "Iorich"

[Philip Hart]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Eric Shupps wrote:

> Kindle to the rescue (beginning of Chapter 2):

Can one email snippets to oneself?  How is the Vladiad on Kindle?  I've 
recently gotten one and find some books have lower transfer standards than 
I like.

> By "The State" we mean that body that holds the monopoly on the use of 
> violence within a geographic region [...]

I at least would be interested in someone with a philosphical or poly-sci 
bent might comparing this to the original Weber (Hobbes?) formulation.