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| Title | The state, its historic role, 5th edition |
| Series Title | Freedom pamphlet |
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| Publisher | Freedom Press |
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| Date | 1920 |
| Subject.Topical (Local) |
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| Language | English; French |
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| Original Item Extent | 42 pages; 18 cm. |
| Original Item Location | JC268.K72 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304434~S11 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
| Note | Translation of L'état, son role historique. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 14 |
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| Transcript | 14 The State: Its Historic Rdle. This is why University science which is based upon Roman law, centralisation and hero-worship, is absolutely incapable of understanding the substance of that movement which came from beneath. In France, Augustin Thierry and Sismondi, who both wrote in the first half of this century and who had really understood that period, have had no followers up to the present time; and only now M. La- chaire timidly tries to follow the lines of research indicated by the great historian of the Merovingian and the communalist peiiod (Augustin Thierry). This is why in Germany, the awakening of studies of this period and a vague comprehension of its spirit are only just now coming to the front. And this is why, in this country, one finds a true comprehension of the twelfth century in the poet William Morris rather than amongst the historians,—Green having been only the one wh was capable (in the later part of his life) of understanding it at all. o The Commune of the middle ages takes its origin, on the one hand, from the village community, on the other from those thousands fraternities and guilds which were constituted outside territorial unions. It was a federation of these two kinds of unions, developed under the protection of the fortified enclosure and the turrets of the city. In many a region it was a natural growth. Elsewhere—and this is the rute m Western Europe.-it was the result of a revolution. When the inhabitants of a borough felt themselves sufficiently protected by .heir walls, they made a "con-juration". They mutually took the oath to put aside all pending questions concerning feuds arisen from insults' ZS\JJT ' and they SW°re that henceforth in the quarrels that commune, such had formerlv been thf»r.,,=f„^ u / "* evelT v.u,a» had succeeded in introducing\nl Z '■ T blsh°P ?• k-nf Now thn homWo lu"°aucing— and later in enforcing—his judge. wel7 as all t^n-lT th,e Panshes "hich constituted the borough, as SerJdthLSTvS? "\ fraternities th^t had developed there! con- Ss££^^js JXred their judges and swore sent tth9: copy of f^^ ^ In «* °f ™« ** (we know hundreds of there cLrT ^f NneiShbourinS commuI^ constituted. The bishop or nrineP!l u'^y'> and the mmmm* ""! the commune and hadoVen becol had U? m then been H«* ?' naa otten become more or less its master, had only |