Identifier: histofengfromthe01macauoft (find matches)
Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Moralcauses noiselessly effaced first the distinction between Norman andSaxon, and then the distinction between master and slave. None canventure to fix the precise moment at which either distinction ceased.Some faint traces of the old Norman feeling might perhaps have beenfound late in the fourteenth century. Some faint traces of the institu-tion of villenage were detected by the curious so late as the days of theStuarts ; nor has that institution ever, to this hour, been abolished bystatute. It would be most unjust not to acknowledge that the chief agent in these two great deliverances was religion ; and it may perhaps be Beneficial doubted whether a purer religion might not have been found operation of a iess efficient agent. The benevolent spirit of the Christianthe Roman . Tin , ,. . . r Catholic morality is undoubtedly adverse to distinctions of caste. But to the Church of Rome such distinctions are peculiarly odious ; for they are incompatible with other distinctions which are
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ELIZABETH OF YORKFrom the painting in the National Portrait Gallery. Artist unknown 20 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap. essential to her system. She ascribes to every priest a mysteriousdignity which entitles him to the reverence of every layman ; and shedoes not consider any man as disqualified, by reason of his nation or ofhis family, for the priesthood. Her doctrines respecting the sacerdotalcharacter, however erroneous they may be, have repeatedly mitigatedsome of the worst evils which can afflict society. That superstitioncannot be regarded as unmixedly noxious which, in regions cursed bythe tyranny of race over race, creates an aristocracy altogether inde-pendent of race, inverts the relation between the oppressor and theoppressed, and compels the hereditary master to kneel before thespiritual tribunal of the hereditary bondman. To this day, in somecountries where negro slavery exists, Popery appears in advantageouscontrast to other forms of Christianity. It is notorious that theantipat

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