THE HULL 



LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL MISCELLANY. 



No. VIII. MAY. Vol. II. 



ON THK INFLUENCE OF FEUDALISM 



ON THE 



MODERN INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. 

 BY ROBT. WELLS, ESQ. 



A Paper read before the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society, Tuesday, 

 bth Ayril 1844. 



Continued from page 13. 



Thirdly.— I proceed now to a consideration of the most important 

 part of my subject, the influence of feudalism upon the Civil condU 

 Hon of this country. 



The necessary consequence of the possession of wealth is a ten- 

 dency to give power to it«» owner, and no species of wealth is so well 

 calculated to raise and secure pennanent power as that of landed 

 property ; for in no other kind of wealth are to be found the same 

 elements of durability ; the experience of ages has established the 

 truth of this position, and no form of government was better calcu- 

 lated to guarantee this pennanence than the feudal system, and so 

 long as the original principles of that system were adhered to and 

 maintained, the civil power of the landed proprietary must have been 

 permanent. 



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