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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Two Melbourne Synagogues Together With Sermons Preached
Another historical feature of the Middle Ages was the feudal system. Its most marked tendency was the subdivision of the State into guilds or companies. Feudalism split up the aggregate of society into many separate bodies, and assigned to each a par ticular position and constitution, and individual rights and privi leges. Instead of erecting the State on the universal basis of equal and general rights; instead of comprehending each and every portion of society as constituting an integral part of the whole social fabric instead of recognising the people collectively to be one body politic, feudalism divides and subdivides them, according to a certain fixed scheme, from the monarch down to the serf, into classes, guilds, corporations, and arranges them in orders, companies, &c., that stand to each other in the relative positions of inferior and superior.
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