. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. od men, vou title of Common Sense, which had an enor- ^jo^t get good rosuits. And that was the position mOUS effect on public opinion. Its style was under George III and Lord North.—E. B. REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE 461 their independence came a new sort of com-munity into the world. It was like some-thing coming out of an egg. It was awestern European civilization that hadbroken free from the last traces of Empireand Christendom ; it had not a vestige ofmonarchy left and no state religion. It hadno dukes, princes, count
. The outline of history : being a plain history of life and mankind. od men, vou title of Common Sense, which had an enor- ^jo^t get good rosuits. And that was the position mOUS effect on public opinion. Its style was under George III and Lord North.—E. B. REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE 461 their independence came a new sort of com-munity into the world. It was like some-thing coming out of an egg. It was awestern European civilization that hadbroken free from the last traces of Empireand Christendom ; it had not a vestige ofmonarchy left and no state religion. It hadno dukes, princes, counts, nor any sort oftitle-bearers claiming to ascendancy or re- had in fact gone right down to the bare andstripped fundamentals of human association,and it was building up a new sort of societyand a new sort of state upon those founda-tions. Here were about four million people scat-tered over vast areas with very slow anddifficult means of intercommunication, pooras yet, but with the potentiality of limit- ^Ec UNITED 5TATE5, showing extent cfscttU- mcntixi 1790. \. Area. scttLzilbefore 1760 ^^ 1760-1790 ? SHIRE C. -CcNireCTICUT -Rhode Island? NewJerset Tvi? MAKyLftND D. Delaware spect as a right. Even its unity was asyet a mere unity for defence and was in these respects such a clean startin political organization as the world hadnot seen before. The absence of any bind-ing religious tie is especially had a number of forms of Christianity,its spirit was indubitably Christian ; butas a state document of 1796 explicitly de-clared, The government of the UnitedStates is not in any sense founded on theChristian religion. i The new community 1 The Tripoli Treaty, see Claanning, vol. iii, less wealth, setting out to do in realityon a huge scale such a feat of constructionas the Athenian philosophers twenty-twocenturies before had done in imaginationand theory. This situation marks a definite stage inthe release of man from prec
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