. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . oney, flows together and whirlsin a vortex. There was a time in the history ofIceland when the tendencies were inthis direction. It has been remarkedthat the old life in the island was tur- Tllli XORSIL— WDIiKS. 45 bulent and anarchic, but at. the sametime free and varied. Under these con-Christianity as a ditions the gre
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . oney, flows together and whirlsin a vortex. There was a time in the history ofIceland when the tendencies were inthis direction. It has been remarkedthat the old life in the island was tur- Tllli XORSIL— WDIiKS. 45 bulent and anarchic, but at. the sametime free and varied. Under these con-Christianity as a ditions the great Iceland-llwarTedThe crs Were produced. Therecommercial life, ^ve^?e men of note, capal^lein war and in peace, arbitrary and strong,even luxurious in their habits. Theirelevation above the peasantry was soconsiderable as to awaken the strugglesof competition and ri\-alr3. But it ap- of men to a brotherhood of equals. Theremay have been other forces which workedin like manner to prevent the buildingup of great Icelandic cities, the creationof emporiums and manufactures, and theinstitution of those violent competitivedispositions which men display underthe influences and ambitions of gain al-ready gotten or to be acquired. Unfortunately, the Reformation did. Norse HOSPITALITW—Receftmn of Strangfk by Icki andic Family.—Drawn by V. Foulqiiier, after a sketch of Noiigaret. pears that in a particular manner in thiscountry the introduction of Christianitywas a leveling force which checked theplay of the natural passions and abateddiversity of development. We need notbe surprised if the facts should show thatthe Icelanders are an exceedingly sin-cere people, that they accepted the Gos-pel in a literal and practical way, andthat they, in the manner of simple folk,applied its principles as they were in-tended to be applied, in the reduction little for the Icelandic people. The po-litical situation was such as Poor results ofto hinder all those advan- ^ong theTd^tages w^hicli appe
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