True Invention: That is, of the inventions which have been invented by the German nation

nor the goldsmith the rings that he puts on the buyer's fingers.

It is also open and known to everyone that it is one thing to receive a fief from the feudal lord, but another thing entirely to receive the ceremonies and mere usage from another. To this, indeed, no one is found above the supreme prince of this world, or the Emperor, except the Divine Majesty, from whom all kingdoms of the world and principalities are given; human beings, however, as persons of inferior status, have no power over the same.

Among the ancient Romans, a Roman Emperor was appointed either by orderly succession or by the power of the soldiery, the bodyguard, in which case significant gifts and presents were involved; for which reasons the Roman citizenry did not appoint their princes or emperors through regular election, but had to accept them when they were chosen and proclaimed by the proven soldiery, as happened particularly in those times when the Roman Empire was still in its best bloom and flower, of which the histories give sufficient witness. Above all this, through the old law of the Roman