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The maker or skillful user of tools feels a different attachment to them from that which the farmer feels to his land or his cattle. His possessions lend the landlord his dignity; they probably have been inherited, since they form a continuous source of livelihood and relatively safe nest where an entire life is profitably spent and a family is founded that may grow into a clan. The land sustains his lord, morally no less than materially; so much that in feudal times the nobility bore the names of their estates and even kings those of their dominions. And it was only a recognition of ...