Atdtda22: [43.4ii] Who, 625

[Paul Nightingale]

[625.21-22] "... someone in a guard's uniform, who Kit, in his innocence,
assumed was a guard."

Cf. Weber on authority:

In the case of legal authority, obedience is owed to the legally established
impersonal order. It extends to the persons exercising the authority of
office under it only by virtue of the formal legality of their commands and
only within the scope of authority of the office. In the case of traditional
authority, obedience is owed to the person of the chief who occupies the
traditionally sanctioned position of authority and who is (within its
sphere) bound by tradition. But here the obligation of obedience is not
based on the impersonal order, but is a matter of personal loyalty within
the area of accustomed obligations. In the case of charismatic authority, it
is the charismatically qualified leader as such who is obeyed by virtue of
personal trust in him and his revelation, his heroism or his exemplary
qualities so far as they fall within the scope of the individual's belief in
his charisma. 

From: Max Weber, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization, ed Talcott
Parsons, OUP, 1947, 328. 

And so to ...

[625.29-31] "... under the supervision of a platoon of "engineers" with
real-looking surveyors' instruments and so forth, who did not appear to be
inmates of the Kolonie, though around here one so seldom could tell."

Which might recall what Simmel said about impersonal relations. It might
also recall Webb and Deuce on, eg, 196:

Deuce came to imagine himself as "on assignment" for the owners, a sort of
undercover "detective" keeping an eye on agitators, including Webb Traverse.
Webb half-consciously imagined he'd found a replacement son, and Deuce did
nothing to tell him any different. Knowing there was seldom a clear moment
in these matters when the deceiver thinks his task is accomplished, any more
than the deceived stops worrying how solid the friendship is.