. 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. ithuanian princes receiA^edthe country and enlarged its 1325 Gedymin, a member of thishouse, appears in history in a treatyAvith Poland against the Livonians, andfrom this time forth the Lithuanians areseen CA^er and anon on the northeasternf
. 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. ithuanian princes receiA^edthe country and enlarged its 1325 Gedymin, a member of thishouse, appears in history in a treatyAvith Poland against the Livonians, andfrom this time forth the Lithuanians areseen CA^er and anon on the northeasternfrontiers of Europe. In the Middle Ages there Avere innearly all European countries tAvo diverseTwo opposing political tendencies. One^S^^ ^vas to concentrate polit-die Ages. {cal powcr in the hands of one member of a given family, theother was to divide it among all. Theone tended to monarchy, the othertended to feudalism. The one repre-sented the earlier Middle Ages, the other the later. It might be difficult tocite a single example of a country inEurope that has not felt the accessionand recession of these forces, and sincethe enlargement of our knoAvledge ofthe history of the Orient, avc find thatthe countries of the East, as Avell asthose of the West, have been passingthrough a like vicissitude. Of Gedvmins seAen sons, Olgerd and. z^^>^ L.^iMlS^ OLD LITHUANIAN BEGGAR—TYPEDrawn by DHenriet. Keistut gained the rule, and presentlyOlgerd alone. He advo- Keistut acated a union Avith Russia. ^SionwithP<;-He greatly increased the ^^^^^•influence of the kingdom by his diplo-matical relations. His Avife and sons be-came Christians, and he also Avas bap-tized after the Greek ritual, but hisbrother, meaiiAvhile, AA^as a reactionist, infavor of the old nationality. Thus,seeming to oppose himself to all theradical and aggressive movements of hisbrother, he became recognized as a sort 120 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. of national hero, standing- for independ-ence, freedom, and the on
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