Word: feudality
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...feudal system of the middle ages was built entirely upon unity of family. The son never entered any other career than that which came to him by inheritance. But under our free institutions this hereditary retaining of family careers disappears and extraordinary diversity is found among the children of the same family. Some have maintained from the enormity of this diversity that there is no law of heredity, but modern natural science has shown that heredity is the cause of the diversity, in that it reproduces in the children the varying traits of many generations. Where are we to find...
...last meeting in the bomb-proof cellar of the Lampoon's feudal castle the Interpaper Pastimes Association approved Friday, June 3, as a beautiful day for the annual base-running best of the Arterial Blooders with the bowlegged Barons of Bow Street Bend. The Arterial Artists are expected to drive the Lords of Mirth from the lists, and heralds will bawl the decisions of the judges to the fractious faus roaring around the flowing flagons of fragrant nut-brown...
...study of medicine, a rapid assimilation of western education took place. The revolutionary ideas thus brought about made possible the peaceful restoration of the imperial dynasty in 1868. At that time an oath of five articles was sworn to by the emperor. As a result of this oath the feudal system was abolished. Owing to the leadership of the late Prince Ito this and the other reforms were not brought about without great difficulty. Their success can only be ascribed to the far-sightedness of the Emperor and to the great devotion of all his subjects...
...Democratic Society and Feudal Society"--President Eliot...
...mentioned the Cosmopolltan Club, "the beginning of an intellectual and moral force which will in time make war impossible." Though most people believe that Japan and America are very different, the President stated that there were certain fundamentals alike. He mentioned but one "human nature." He spoke of the feudal tendencies of Japanese society in contrast to ours in which there is no birth distinction of any sort. The resemblance comes in "loyalty," for the same feelings inspire the Japanese in war and business to give them the greatest happiness, that inspire us. Our loyalty is more impersonal than theirs...