. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . PLAGUE by V, Foulquier. of the Danish power gave the kings ofthat country an opportunity to extendover Iceland an arbitrary and exactingrule such as had hitherto been unknown. which had their roots in the ecclesiasti-cal convulsion at the beginning of thesixteenth century. It is alleged, more-over, that theleade
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . PLAGUE by V, Foulquier. of the Danish power gave the kings ofthat country an opportunity to extendover Iceland an arbitrary and exactingrule such as had hitherto been unknown. which had their roots in the ecclesiasti-cal convulsion at the beginning of thesixteenth century. It is alleged, more-over, that theleaders of thereformatorymovement in Ice-land were men oflow degree, thatthey were notgreat either ingenius or char-acter, and that forthis reason themovement was Oiia lower plane andits results lesssalutary than inany other Teu-tonic country. Asmight be expect-ed, the whole re-ligious revolutionwas apathetic and cold. As a conse-quence, the Reformation in Iceland wasnever disgraced with inquisitorial fires,but at the same time it w^as lacking in. A HALT IN ICELAND.—Drawn by V. Foulquier, after a sketch of Nougaret. Many new forms of taxation and rentwere introduced, and the industries ofthe country were made worse rather thanbettered by those far-reaching changes that heat and enthusiasm which arenecessary for the actual regeneration ofsociety. Iceland, in the course of her history
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