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curity against the stronger feudal nobility. They were everywhere oppressed, often robbed of their lands, and even reduced to villanage. Giesebrecht, Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit. Chap. II.} Scattered, and unconnected, and without arms, they were not able to assume their own defence, and they needed some support to which they could cling. Alone in Switzerland, which its mountains kept apart alike from Italy and the north, the free people preserved their ancient character, Freeman's Growth of the English Constitution, ch. i. and note 1. and, being content within themselves, constituted a confederated republic which has outlasted every dynasty and constitution of that day, forming a commonwealth which still stands like their own Alps. But elsewhere in Germany the nobles took advantage of the period of lawlessness to round off their estates, to wrong their neighbors, to oppress their tenants, to reduce the free rural classes to the condition of adscripts to the glebe.