"[God made Adam] lord over the whole earth and [gave] him dominion over everything on the face of the earth. Lordship and dominion are the same. The word lord is the usual English slurring of hlaf-weard, hlaford, the loaf-ward or keeper of the bread, because according to the Oxford English Dictionary, 'in its original sense the word (absent from other Teutonic languages) denotes the head of a household in his relation to the servants and dependents who 'eat his bread' . . . the development of sense has been largely influenced by the adoption of the word as the customary rendering of the Latin dominus. Which brings us in the dictionary to 'dominion,' derivative of domini-um, property, ownership, from dominus, lord, specifically 'the lord of the household,' in his capacity of generous host, 'pater familias and owner of the house' [domus]. The title of dominus designated the Roman Emperor himself as the common benefactor of mankind inviting all the world to feast at his board. In short, lordship and dominion are the same thing, the responsibility of the master for the comfort and well-being of his dependents and guests; he is the generous host, the kind pater familias to whom all look for support. He is the lord who provides bread for all . . . "