In this connection the pages given to the Church of Rome and the birth of nationalism. The latter he ascribes, in one passage, to the French Revolution. That is true enough in one respect as we think of Kossuth, Victor Emmanuel LI, Garibald; and Cavour, of the Greek struggles for independence, of William I and Bismarck. ' But ebriously, and Mr, Sokolsky shows he would never question it, nationalism goes back much further than that, Inthe—greatest ascendancy of the Church of Rome, national borders meant nothing' There were the kings and nobility and the serfs. Lands were to the, beats possidens. And while the aristocracy, wholly illiterate, fought and slew each other, Rome pre served sgme continuity of law and learning. The Crusades began the breaking down of the old feudal system and in England the Wars fof the Roses finished it off, On the Continent it lasted much longer. In England, Henry I's French ware, when he accepted money with which to hire mercenaries instead of service, and left the country gentlemen at home to manage their estates, combining with the peculiar itieal and judicial genius of the English people, brought about a state of social and political stability far ahead of what was to be found contemporaneously on the Continent, But England being an island, her influence on the Continent "was. practically nil until her people began to "run across the seas chang. ing their skies but not their mind." it is interesting to reflect how large a part the Puritans (another offshoot, by repulsion, of Rome) contributed to this migration, first by driving abroad the churchmen and then by being themselves driven abroad.
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