It was valuable in teaching how to work within definite limitations, but without slavish copying; it also emancipated a considerable body of craftsmen from the tyranny of manufacturers whose sole idea was that machine-work should supersede handicraft.
A third way to predict the future that I believe is reliable rejects both the slavish following of the straight line and the purely speculative approach.
That the writer owes no slavish adherence to any philosophical system is plain from his independent treatment of the affections.
Even the worst king could, in these ways, evoke a slavish devotion in his subjects.
Not that these hints of Chandler in any way suggest slavish imitation.