The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.