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Slavery was the institution on which all of ancient European society rested
Drawn from what Hilaire Belloc said
SubjectEurope
What Hilaire Belloc actually said
- Hilaire Belloc Anglo-French writer and historian (1870 to 1953)
In no matter what field of the European past we make our research, we find, from two thousand years ago upwards, one fundamental institution whereupon the whole of society reposes; that fundamental institution is Slavery.
Where this was said
↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org
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