Conscious of its danger, and that it was doomed to destruction, if some remedy were not found, it evolved in the tenth and the following century, not an absolutely efficacious remedy, but one which enabled it to pass in comparative safety that dangerous period and carried European civilization to the full glories of the age of Dante, St.Louis and the Angel of the Schools.

The remedy was feudalism.
That institution has been misunderstood.

It was called forth by special needs, and when the conditions which it met in an almost providential manner changed, it quietly passed away.

But it rendered an important and never-to-be forgotten service to war-torn Europe.

Feudalism can scarcely be called a complete and rounded system.