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Excerpt from The Historians' History of the World, Vol. 19 of 25: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations, as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages; England, 1485-1642
IT is not my purpose, nor will it, I presume, be expected of me, within the space of a few pages to attempt anything like a general survey of the course of English history during a very momentous period of two hundred years. That history is here treated by others in detail, and a condensed account of events at the outset is not wanted. But it is always profitable to examine tendencies in the great drama of events, and to mark the currents of feeling in connection with abiding or transitory conditions, the neces sities which the past continually imposes on the present, and the causes, generally Speaking, which have shaped the dynasties of nations. To look at these on the great scale is to realise the unity of history and to harmonise the results of much laborious study.
Assuredly no period of equal length in the life Of a great nation ever begot such potent movements to affect the future condition of the world as the two hundred and three years from the accession of the house Of Tudor in England to the expulsion of the last Stuart king. Not even the two centuries and more which have since succeeded, wonderful as have been their results for human progress, afford so profitable a study in historical causation. For in truth the two succeeding centuries have but developed the fruits of that social and political order for which the foundations were being gradually laid in many a painful struggle through the period Of the Tudors and the Stuarts. Those two centuries lie between us and the Middle Ages, between a feudal England, which, bereft Of its old continental possessions, was still incessantly at war with its northern neighbour, and a united kingdom with a settled constitution and with colonies and dependencies over all the globe.
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