Possible Sources of Inspiration
The term "Lords of the Instrumentality" may have been partly inspired by the Lords of the Admiralty, an institution of prime importance in the history of the British Empire. The Instrumentality also has similarities to the future world government of Rudyard Kipling's short stories "With the Night Mail" and "As Easy as ABC". Anglican Christianity, to which Smith belonged, refers frequently to "instrumentality", meaning agent or intermediary.
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