For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.