Note 63 — Chapter II
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"Thus was introduced into America the feudal system, so long the ruin of Europe."—Raynal, vol. viii., p. 143.
"Nothing has reduced the families of the ancient French seigneurs to misery more than the division and subdivision of their lands by their own law; a law which, though it appears at first to breathe more the spirit of democracy than of monarchy, yet in fact is calculated for a military government only, because nobles so reduced can and will only live by the sword."—Gray's Canada, p. 346.