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The servile institution in pagan antiquity -- Its fundamental character -- A pagan society took it for granted -- The institution disturbed by the advent of the Christian Church.
In no matter what field of the European past we make our research, we find, from two thousand years ago upwards, one fundamental institution whereupon the whole of society reposes; that fundamental institution is slavery.