Wealth Brings Strength, Strength Confidence.

For A Century Longer, Rome Still Retains Its Outward Form, But The Swarming Nations Are Now In Full Career.

In The Tenth Century The Old Batavian And Later Roman Forms Have Faded Away.

The Crusades Made Great Improvement In The Condition Of The Serfs.

The History Of The Franks Becomes, Therefore, The History Of The Netherlands.

A Soil, Exhausted By The Long Culture Of Pagan Empires, Was To Lie Fallow For A Still Longer Period.