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Excerpt from Protestantism: In the Middle of the Nineteenth CenturyOn the other side are all those continental States which, at the close of the Thirty Years' war, were left permanently alienated from the Romish Church, and' which, though little imbued with vital Christianity, are still as decidedly Protest ant in their policy as they were two hundred years ago. To these are to be added England and America, the two nations which are now in¿uencing the destinies of mankind more than all continental Europe together, whose commercial marine exceeds that of the civilized world beside, and who hold in their hands, under God, the destinies of the uncivil ized nations. Sink Spain, Belgium, and Austria, like Sodom, entombing all their wealth and in¿uence, their armies and navies, their men of political and religious activity, and scarce a ripple would break on the shores of Asia, Africa, or Oceanica to bear the tidings. But strike Protestant Eng land out of existence, and there is not a port nor sea-board nation but would reel under the catastrophe, a gloom like the dimness of an eclipse would go swiftly darkening over the waters, and the shadow fall back ten degrees on the dial that marks the stages of human progress.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.