Centuries ago, feudalism flourished on different continents in different ways, but it usually involved a hierarchy of nobility granting land and favors to peasants who worked to serve their masters.

Feudalism had its faults as well as its merits; but it never conceived anything so contemptible of degrading to the character of a man as the flunkeyism that surrounded LOUIS XIV. and symbolized ...

Apparently, it has something to do with the national psychology. While we apportion the biggest blame for feudalism — and, indeed, there are valid reasons for it — we tend to overlook the ...