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."