Note T — Chapter VI · THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE
John M. (John Milton) Gitterman translation
“Every place of worship gathers about it dwellings of the priests, schools, and rest-houses for pilgrims.”—Ratzel, l. c. II., p. 575.
Naturally, every place toward which great pilgrimages proceed becomes an extended trade center. We may see the remembrances thereof in the fact that the great wholesale markets, held at stated times in Northern Europe, are called Messen from the religious ceremony.