Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . noticed as an interesting fact that his character oflast great public act was the conclusion, in Frederick. that year, of a commercialtreaty with the then infantRepublic of the UnitedStates of America. Hewas in his seventy-fifthyear at the time of hisdeath, and had reignedforty-seven years. He wasa great soldier, of daringcourage in battle, of quickand fertile genius in diffi-culties, of most elasticspirit in the hour of de-pression. He gave him-
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . noticed as an interesting fact that his character oflast great public act was the conclusion, in Frederick. that year, of a commercialtreaty with the then infantRepublic of the UnitedStates of America. Hewas in his seventy-fifthyear at the time of hisdeath, and had reignedforty-seven years. He wasa great soldier, of daringcourage in battle, of quickand fertile genius in diffi-culties, of most elasticspirit in the hour of de-pression. He gave him-self little trouble respect-ing the justice of his un-dertakings ; but he wasdistinguished from thecommon herd of conquerors by having one fixed object, —to make his country one of the great powers of selects him as a hero for the characteristic reasonthat he managed not to be a liar and a charlatan, as therest of his century was. And certainly, as compared withhis royal contemporaries, the Georges of England and theLouises of France, he challenges our admiration for hisconsummate ability, if he cannot claim our love as a maa. Frederick the Great. 402 MODERN HISTORY. 3. THE RISE OF RUSSIA. 264. In the history of Europe down to the beginning ofRussian ques- the 18th century Russia is a blank. Why istion stated. ^hig t The stock to which the Russians be-long, the Slavic race, is inferior in capacity to no othermember of the Aryan family. Moreover, Russia earlystarted on the path of civilization. The foundation of thekingdom was laid by the Norseman Ruric in the 9th cen-tury, and in the loth century the Russians were Christian-ized, adopting the faith of the Greek Church. 265. The explanation of why no progress was made isReason of found in the fact that Russia lies directly ex-wardness. poscd to the attacks of those fierce Mongoliansavages who, from their hive in Central Asia, were wont topour themselves in devastating tides into Europe. Fromthese inroads the Sl
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