Note 32 — LECTURE II. The Roman and the Teuton. Comparison of the Political and Social Condition of the Empire and its German Neighbours.

The strongest part of Mr. Seebohm’s book is, I think, his illustration of the old Teutonic land-tenure by the open fields now or lately existing at Hitchin. I confess I am not convinced by him that the open field system and ‘co-aration’ necessarily imply a servile tenure on the part of the cultivators.