Crossword-Solution: GUILD 5 letters, 78 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

There have been many turning-points in my life, but the one that was the last link in the chain appointed to conduct me to the literary guild is the most _conspicuous _link in that chain.

And the old, old creation-dawn scheme of ultimately launching me into the literary guild would have been defeated.

The naked Saxon serf was drowning the sense of his half-year’s hunger and thirst, in one day of gluttony and drunkenness—the more pampered burgess and guild-brother was eating his morsel with gust, or curiously criticising the quantity of the malt and the skill of the brewer.

Not so extraordinary, I replied, if you bear in mind that in former days, as is commonly said, before the time of Herodicus, the guild of Asclepius did not practise our present system of medicine, which may be said to educate diseases.