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Excerpt from The Middle Ages Revisited or the Roman Government and Religion, and Their Relations to Britain
The accepted origin and Spirit of the feudal system will also be chal lenged. It is in vain that the constitutions Of certain modern states have forbidden feudalism, so long as the essential nature of feuds is misunderstood, or their origin is overlooked. Feudalism is not yet wholly extirpated from the European world. It has been cut down in some states, it has been removed from tenures of land in others; but its seeds survive, and it may ?ourish again. So too are the rights of assemblage, aye, even of religious liberty, jeopardized, so long as we remain but imperfectly acquainted with their historical developement and the means by which they have been and therefore may again be subverted.
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