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    • On the Migration of Nations, the Crusades, and the Middle Ages [From the German of Schiller.]
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      THE new system of social constitution engendered in the north of Europe aad Asia , and brought in

      by a fresh race of people on the rums of the eas tern empire , natd now , during the space of nearly seven centuries , enjoyed the opportunity of displaying itself on another and greater theatre , ia new relations , of developing itself in all its modes and varieties , and of

      passing through every different forni and alternation . The posterity of the Vandals , Saevi , Alani , Goths , Franks , Burgundians , and of many others , were at length naturalized on the § oil which their ancestors had entered , sword in hand ; when the spirit of migration

      and of rapine , which had brought them into this new country , awoke in the course of the eleventh century in another form and on a different occasion . Europe requited on the

      southwest of Asia , the swarms poured out , and the ravages inflicted , 700 years previously , by the north of that por * tion of the globe , but with very dissimilar fortune ; for as many streams of blood as it had cost the barbarians

      to found perpetual dynasties in Europe , so many did their Christian children expend on the conquest of some towns aad castles in Syria , that in two hundred years were to be lost for ever .

      The folly and madness which produced the enterprise of the crusades * and the deeds of violence which accompanied its execution , may nQt perhaps invite to contemplation the eye whose horizon is bounded by what is present . But if we consider these events in

      connexion with the ages that preceded and those which followed , they will appear too natural in their origin to excite our astonishment , and too beneficial in their results not to convert

      our displeasure into an entirely different feeling . If we look at its causes , this expedition of the Christians to the Holy Land is such a natural , and even necessary production of its time , that an utterly uninstrusted perspi ) ,

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      with the historical premises placed before him , could not miss the evenjt . If we regard its effects , we shall irecognize it as the first perceptible step by means of which superstition herself began to ameliorate the evil she' had so long occasioned ; and there is perhaps no historical problem more clearly solved by time than 4 ; his , none which the genius who spins the . threads of the world's history has more satis * factorily vindicated to our reason .

      Out of the unnatural and enervating rest , into which old Rome plunged all the nations whom she oppressed as mistress ; out of the effemijiate slavery , in which she smothered the most effective energies of a numerous world s

      we see the human race emerging into the lawless , stormy freedom of the middle ages , in order at length to rest in the happy medium between two extremes , and advantageously to unite freedom with order , rest with activity , and variety with system .

      It can , indeed , scarcely be a question , whether the happy state we npw enjoy ( the approach of which at Jea $ ^ we can perceive with certainty ) is to be considered as gain , even when

      compared with the most flourishing situation of mankind at any former time ; and whether we have really improved . on the fairest ages of Rome and Greece . Greece and Rome could at

      the best give birth but to excellent Romans , excellent Greeks—these nations at their brightest epochs never elevated themselves to excellent men * The whole world , beyond Greece , \ va ^

      to the Athenian , a barbarous waste ; and we know that he frequently found even her general interests clash with hrs . The Romans were punisjied by their own arm for having left on thp vast-extended theatre of their (

      loannion nothing but Roman citizens ayia Roman slaves . Nojie of our states has a Roman citizenship to bestow , and , therefore , do we possess a good that no Roman , remaining such , could dare to know ; and we hold it from a

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      On The Migration Of Nations, The Crusades, And The Middle Ages [From The German Of Schiller.]

      On the Migration of Nations , the Crusades , and the Middle Ages [ From the German of Schiller . ]

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1825, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2541/page/1/