Word: feudality
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...mentally, sound in their approach to work, to action. ... In spite of the fact that America is a highly advanced capitalist land, the customs of industry, the habits of production contain something of democracy, which you cannot say of the old European capitalist lands, where the arrogant spirit of feudal aristocracy still survives...
Married. John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 24, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Lady Eileen Beatrice Forbes, second daughter of the Earl & Countess of Granard, granddaughter of the late Ogden Mills, niece of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills; in feudal ceremony at Clonguish Parish Church, Newtown Forbes, Ireland...
...Reorganization of the 'Feudal State", Professor Usher, Widener...
...Reorganization of the Feudal State", Professor usher, Widener...
...altogether natural transition, but by deification Washington loses his significance. He was not omniscient, omnipotent, and divine. His genius was the sober brilliance of a thoughtful man. His life was determined by essential principles of which he never lost sight. He was a gentleman reared in and almost feudal civilization, maintaining to the last the virtues and the blemishes of that civilization. He was a leader of bright, if restricted vision, a politician of sound, if conventional theory, a man of careful, tranquil thought. Like Lincoln he possessed that rare ability of assessing human values...