“...To detain peoples on the path of anti-Christian progress, to remove the date of the coming of the Antichrist (i.e. that powerful man who will take into his own hands the entire anti-Christian, anti-church movement), strong royal power is needed. In order for this royal power to be strong for a long time, it is not only not necessary that it rest directly and directly on the common people, self-interested, passionate, stupid, mobile, easily corrupted; but - on the contrary - it is necessary that strong class steps rise between these crowds and the royal throne; lateral supports are needed for the building of durable monarchism. <…>The estates themselves, or, more precisely, the very inequality of people and classes, is more important for the state than the monarchy...”