. The journal of a country woman. ims thatthe success of Hollands struggle for libertywas the beginning of modem civilization—theDutch having taught Europe nearly everythingit knows. Her merchants controlled the com-merce of the world, the influence of her states-men and scholars was worldwide, and her broadtolerance made this small country the refugeof the oppressed and the persecuted of everyland. At the same time her artists were paintingimmortal pictures, and her artist-craftsmen fash-ioning in silver and gold, in wood and clay andleather and textiles the beautiful things foruse and adornm
. The journal of a country woman. ims thatthe success of Hollands struggle for libertywas the beginning of modem civilization—theDutch having taught Europe nearly everythingit knows. Her merchants controlled the com-merce of the world, the influence of her states-men and scholars was worldwide, and her broadtolerance made this small country the refugeof the oppressed and the persecuted of everyland. At the same time her artists were paintingimmortal pictures, and her artist-craftsmen fash-ioning in silver and gold, in wood and clay andleather and textiles the beautiful things foruse and adornment that served to make thehome environment of the rich and the poorartistic. The institutions and civilization of Hollandleft a permanent impress upon the New Worldof which too little acknowledgment has beenmade. It is rarely that the Dutch blood inAmerican veins is given its due share of creditfor the sterling traits and aesthetic qualitiesof the American people. New England haswisely and zealously investigated, preserved, 52. A COUNTRY WOMAN and published to the world every trace of hercolonial history from archives, historic spots,architectural remains, ancient furniture andutensils, and manners and customs, with theinfluences that shaped her founding, and thosethat went out from her in the shaping of thenation. It is only in recent years that aneffort to rehabilitate the early history of themiddle states has seriously begun, althoughWoodrow Wilson has made bold to say thatthe local history of the middle states is muchmore structurally a part of the nation as awhole than is the history of New England orof the several states and regions of the South.*The Hollanders were the first people to makehome life comfortable, as we imderstand it, andthey brought to the New World their highideal of home. What survivals of the earlysettlers and their descendants have come downto us in their houses, furniture, and utensils,and in their customs and personal belongingsevidence the comfor
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