A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 55

what England had been kept in the kingdom of Mary, sustaining with
impunity the Dutch against Phillip II and the Huguenots against the king
of France. You concealed his/her aggressions with diplomatic artifice and
caution;  but to heart she was with his/her people that you/they didn't lose opportunity,
in their trust it new-founded, of plundering and to insult the Catholic
the powers in their way.

The amazing success of England among the novel conditions of
national rivalry asks for the explanation attempt. It seems to have
is due to the unusual flexibility of the character English and
national system, and to the consequent ease with which they adapted
them to changing environment. Indeed, anything can be the case to
present, an examination of history English suggests that the conventional one
impassibility attributed to John Bull was him the minimum it obviates of his
characteristics;  and to-day protects the only people that they never change them
you mind to general elections it is the Celtses of mercury. Certainly England
you/he/she has never suffered that rigidity of social system that has
prevented of passed the adaptability of his/her competitors. Also in feudal
times there was the small law on status;  and when the usual one
setup of society in two agricultural classes of landlord and
tenant was changed by commerce, capitalism and the competition nobles,
him suited for the change with some facility. They took
sheep-cultivating and commercial speculations, in the moment in which later them takings
to holding dairy-shop. It is the littleness rather than the source of
his/her profits in which you/they excite social prejudice against the storekeeper
England. On the Continent, however the feeling of class prevented the
classes ruler to be participated in the expansion of commerce.
German barons, for example often with only some florins for year
income, could not complete him/it from work;  everybody that they could do was to steal
the dealers, theft that is a completely separate occupation. From now