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…showed last 75 words of 1748 total…society with a secure religious foundation, there were, however, some compensations. For example, as we see in Chaucer people belonging to very different classes could quite happily go on a pilgrimage together, in a way that would have been unusual in later periods. Men had rights as well as particular obligations and responsibilities of their rank or class. There was less downright brutal tyranny than there was in the centuries that followed the Middle Ages.