They themselves wrote down what they knew, and these manuscripts, transmitted to their children, were saved with care.

Some of them remain to this day.

These children, growing to manhood, took more upon them, and assumed higher authority as the past was forgotten, and the original equality of all men lost in antiquity.

The small enclosed farms of their fathers became enlarged to estates, the estates became towns, and thus, by degrees, the order of the nobility was formed.

As they intermarried only among themselves, they preserved a certain individuality.