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Excerpt from The Great Cities of the Middle Ages: Or the Landmarks of European Civilization
Varied as are the political conditions under which the cities of the middle ages are presented to our view', they still possess a curious consistency in one respect I mean in the tendency to struggle for' the attainment of a settled form of government - alloyed, it is true, by the disputes arising from interest or faction - but y)et pressing onwards to political consummation.
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