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Section III. How the Servile Institution Was for a Time Dissolved:--the

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How the Servile Institution was for a Time Dissolved:--The subconscious effect of the Faith in this matter--The main elements of Pagan economic society--The Villa--The transformation of the agricultural slave into the Christian serf--Next into the Christian peasant--The corresponding erection throughout Christendom of the /Distributive State/--It is nearly complete at the close of the Middle Ages--"It was not machinery that lost us our freedom, it was the loss of a free mind."

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