" Indeed, only when such a state of things has
begun to be realized, can Civilization, as sharply demarcated from
Barbarism, be said to have fairly begun. Only then can the world be said
to have become truly Christian. Many ages of toil and doubt and
perplexity will no doubt pass by before such a desideratum is reached.
Meanwhile it is pleasant to feel that the dispassionate contemplation of
great masses of historical facts goes far towards confirming our faith
in this ultimate triumph of good over evil. Our survey began with
pictures of horrid slaughter and desolation: it ends with the picture of
a world covered with cheerful homesteads, blessed with a sabbath of
perpetual peace.
[Footnote 1: Freeman, "Norman Conquest," v. 482.]
[Footnote 2: Freeman, "Comparative Politics," 264.]
[Footnote 3: This is disputed, however. See Ross, "Early History of
Landholding among the Germans."]
[Footnote 4: Stubbs, "Constitutional History," i. 84.]
[Footnote 5: Kemble, "Saxons in England," i. 59.]
[Footnote 6: Maine, "Village Communities," Lond., 1871, p. 132.]
[Footnote 7: Stubbs, "Constitutional History," i. 85.]
[Footnote 8: Freeman, "Comparative Politics," 118.]
[Footnote 9: Geffroy, "Rome et les Barbares," 209.]
[Footnote 10: Maine, "Village Communities," 118.]
[Footnote 11: Stubbs, "Constitutional History," i.
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