The state differs from gentilism in that it first divides its members by territories.
The free and voluntary respect that was accorded to the organs of gentilism does not satisfy them any more, even if they might have it.
The organs of gentilism changed from servants of the public will to independent organs of rule oppressing their own people.
Gentilism stood powerless in the face of the new elements that had grown without its assistance.
The lowest police employee of the civilized state has more "authority" than all the organs of gentilism combined.
Nevertheless this local constitution retained some of the primeval democratic character which distinguishes the whole gentile order, and thus preserved a piece of gentilism even in its enforced degeneration of later times.
Hence gentilism could preserve for many centuries an unchanged territorial character in the form of mark communes, and even rejuvenate itself in the nobility and patrician families of later years, or in the peasantry, as e.
They had left gentilism and barbarism behind them, and entered upon a new career of civilization.
A change in the mode of life among the Dakotas occurred between these dates when they were forced upon the plains, and fell into nomadic bands, which may, perhaps, explain the decadence of gentilism among them.
The evidence of this free spirit and of their free institutions is so decisive that the proposition elsewhere stated, that gentilism is incompatible with monarchy, seems to be incontrovertible.
The active principle of gentilism is plainly illustrated in these cases.
The sentiment of gentilism seems to have been stronger in the Upper Status of barbarism than in earlier conditions, through a higher organization of society, and through mental and moral advancement.
In Gentilism as in Judaism, actual sacrifices of animals are everywhere the rule; beside them, in particular cases, offerings also of vegetable substances.
It is true that in matter of practice the ever growing moral corruption of Gentilism had tended to subordinate worship to government, the priest to the ruler.
As it lay through all Gentilism with its truth corrupted, its power appended to the State, its offices stripped of all moral meaning, it needed to be renewed from its very source.
There was none of that coalescence and incorporation of peoples which occurs after the change from gentilism to civil society has been effected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gentilism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
