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94 importance to what he calls "the feudal family."

Chivalry was in its origin as much aristocratic as religious; the poetry of sex began within the narrow confines of a small hereditary class, and from thence exerted its humanising influence over wider and always widening circles of social life. Precisely in the same way did the political liberties of the modern world develop. First the reign of privilege