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# Franz II
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/30137/
- Published: 2013-10-31T06:02:08.000Z
- Updated: 2013-10-31T06:02:08.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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If you want to see a Catholic historian implement some of Franz Oppenheimer's findings (purposefully, I don't know), check out Christopher Dawson's essay, "Warrior Peoples and the Decline of Archaic Civilization" (found in *Dynamics of World History*), in which he points out the warrior class "was always in a sense parasitic" on the settled pastoral society around it.

I have no idea whether Dawson agreed with Oppenheimer, but I read a lot of Dawson as a younger man. He was easily the historian I read the most of, unless you put Voegelin under the category of "historian." If Dawson's historical conclusions correspond well to the libertarian's, I'm wondering if I internalized a lot of Dawson's ideas, with the result that, 20 years later, the historical worldview of the libertarians resonated with me.

Addition to academic bucket list: Go back and read Dawson.