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qfwibla diattnction , although the still existin g trecta of Rcmna culture in the BQxxXharn , the iniluenee of tne more civilittd Arab * in the south-western countries , the Hierarchy seated in Italy , th § frequent intercourse with the Greeks ia that coun * try , could not be without consequences to its inhabitants , yet their effects wers too uunoticeabte , too tedious and too weak , to obliterate or to alter perceptibly the settled generic stamp which all these nations had brought with them to their n $ w abodes . From this reason the historical inquirer perceives on the remotest extremities of Europe , in Sicily and Britain , on
the Danube and on the Eider , on the Ebro and the Elbe , a similarity of policy And customs , which excites in him the more astonishment that it exists with the greatest disconnexion and an almost complete non-existence of mutual ties . However many centuries had passed over these people , however great alterations might have been effected , and indeed were effected
in the core of their condition by so many new circumstances , a new religion , new languages , new arts , new objects of desire , new conveniences and enjoyments of life , still the same principles of state policy which their forefathers instituted , obtained in them all . They exist , as in their Scythian
fatherland in wild independence , armed for offence and defence , even now in the districts of Europe , as though extended over a vast encampment ; into this wider political theatre have they transplanted their barbaric institutions—even introduced their northern superstitions into the very heart of Christendom .
Monarchies upon the Roman or Asiatic models , Republics upon the Grecian form disappear alike from the new scene . In the place of these stalk on military aristocracies , monarchies without obedience , republics without security and almost without freedom , great states shivered into a hundred small , without unity within , externally without strength and defence , and yet worse united to each other . We find Kings a contradictory mixture of barbaric generals and Roman emperors , from whieh last one derives the name without possessing the authority—Magnates , in real power as in arrogance every where the same , although differently named in different countries—Priests > ruliug with the temporal sword—a Military of the state which the state bus not in command , and whieh it
does not pay—lastly a Peasantry which belongs to the aoii which doe * not belong to them . Nobility and Priesthood - ^ Freedmen and Slaves . Municipal towns and free cities were yet to be . To place in a clear light the altered aspect of the European Hiatat , we must go l > nck to remoter times and trace up their bourse . Whan tue northern xmtiotu took poiseation of G **» many and the Roman Empire , they consisted only of free men ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/11/
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