A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.