. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. forces Language deter- and characteristics, it was ^wth Ind for- also pressed to a COnsid- elgn influence. erable degree by foreign introduction of Protestantism amongEuropean nations did as much by indi-rection as by direction in changing t
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning. forces Language deter- and characteristics, it was ^wth Ind for- also pressed to a COnsid- elgn influence. erable degree by foreign introduction of Protestantism amongEuropean nations did as much by indi-rection as by direction in changing the THE NORSE. —SIVEDES. 85 course of the intellectual, moral, andphysical currents of modern , for instance, the simple questionof commerce, of trade. As a generalthing- the commercial relations betweenthe German towns and cities on the oneside, and those of the Latin races on theother, were broken off at the epochof the Reformation. Europe was di-vided into a Catholic and a Protestant affected the growth and development ofthe Swedish language. It became themost German of any of the vScandinaviantongues. From the first, that is, fromthe day far off, when the difference be-tween it and Old German was only dia-lectical, it had departed less from thecommon type than had Danish or Nor-wegian. We have here again precisely the. CoMMKRCE OF THE of Stock movement. Hitherto the trade of theseBaltic states, for instance, had been,particularly after the substitution ofChristianity for paganism, carried onwith the Roman emporiums of theMediterranean and of the Westerncoasts of the continent, but the comingof Protestantism drew tight the cordsbetween the Scandinavian and the SouthBaltic Germans. Now all of these facts same problem which confronts the nat-uralist in dealing with the striking anaio-animalsand plants that in- pes of language t^ to facts in nat- habit the surface of our urai history,globe. They are divided into speciesand genera. But what do species
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