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They acknowledged their dependence by sending "gifts" to the lord in the town. Later these gifts became institutionalized and turned into a form of tax. The lord's serfs, on the other hand, tended to settle near the fields in villages of their own because, with growing urban population, the distances from the town to many of the fields became too great.

And nowhere as in Germany are the people so successfully subjected to an institutionalized life as it has been worked out in the light of modern technology and business. There are other and special reasons why the best of industrial education experiments in America have not met with greater hospitality.

The workers were provided with the necessaries and a few crumbs of comfort. Private property and property law supported by state power institutionalized a basic division in every civilization. One segment of a civilized community enjoyed wealth and power; other segments produced goods and performed services. The owners were rich; the producers were poor.

"Argumentum ad hominem." "Oh, come on. The man was institutionalized." "And genetic fallacy, too. My, my." "Ignore him, son," said the glasses to the youth. "He's not been very well since his wife laughed at his last paper. A tree " "She did not laugh," interrupted the beard. "And is this the effect of dotage or of primordial ignorance?" "False dilemma, Mr. Logician."

Christ made an upheaval in Jerusalem and its vicinity; a few leaders taught revisions of His doctrines, and as the doctrines passed along, they became institutionalized and dogmatized into a total, made up as much of paganism as of Christ's teachings. It is the tragedy of those whose names exercise authority in the world that their teachings are often without great influence.

Then there's a third section that thinks she's merely institutionalized training makes her as hard as any other kind of a machine. You'll find lots like her in this town in all the charities." "But the girls they do have a good time here?" "Yes, they do. It's sort of fun to fight Ma Fike and all the fool rules. I enjoy smoking here twice as much as I would anywhere else.

Thus the sex problem becomes in large measure a woman's problem, not only because of her peculiar biological specialization for reproduction, which involves an enormous responsibility but also because her life has for so many generations been hedged in by rigid institutionalized taboos and prohibitions.

Spinoza's aim in revealing the defectiveness of the Bible was not theological but philosophical. Orthodox Biblical conceptions had in his day, as they still have to a certain extent in ours, a peculiarly sanctified power, because they were institutionalized and made the basis of an authoritative system of conduct.

In this last sentence we have summed up the fundamental fact about institutionalized religion. Wherever belief and ritual have become the means of livelihood of a class, all innovation will of necessity be taken as an attack upon that class; it will be literally a crime robbing the priests of their age-long privileges.