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... priest could do little for the serfs - Impossibility of regularly organizing feudalism : 1. No powerful authority ; 2. No public power ; 3. Difficulty of the federative system - The idea of the right of resistance inherent in feudalism ...
... priest could do little for the serfs - Impossibility of regularly organizing feudalism : 1. No powerful authority ; 2. No public power ; 3. Difficulty of the federative system - The idea of the right of resistance inherent in feudalism ...
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... priests for the most part pronounced in favour of the system of materialism - Efforts to escape from it - Analogous march of ideas in pagan philosophy - Commencement of the system of spirituality - Saint Augustin , Nemesius , Mamertius ...
... priests for the most part pronounced in favour of the system of materialism - Efforts to escape from it - Analogous march of ideas in pagan philosophy - Commencement of the system of spirituality - Saint Augustin , Nemesius , Mamertius ...
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... priests ; elsewhere , the spirit of clanship has struggled against that of free association ; the aristocratic against the popular system , & c . But it has generally been in ante- historical times that such struggles have occurred ...
... priests ; elsewhere , the spirit of clanship has struggled against that of free association ; the aristocratic against the popular system , & c . But it has generally been in ante- historical times that such struggles have occurred ...
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... priests ; another , εTɩσкOTOι , or in- spectors , or superintendents , who became bishops ; a third diakovo , or deacons , who were charged with the care of the poor , and with the distribution of alms . It is scarcely possible to ...
... priests ; another , εTɩσкOTOι , or in- spectors , or superintendents , who became bishops ; a third diakovo , or deacons , who were charged with the care of the poor , and with the distribution of alms . It is scarcely possible to ...
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... priests became the principal municipal magistrates . You have seen , that of the Roman empire there remained , properly speaking , nothing but the municipal system . It had happened , from the vexations of despotism and the ruin of the ...
... priests became the principal municipal magistrates . You have seen , that of the Roman empire there remained , properly speaking , nothing but the municipal system . It had happened , from the vexations of despotism and the ruin of the ...
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