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MR.   WARNER   VAN   NORDEN
 

T is an interesting historical fact that
modern civilization is indebted for
all that we prize most highly to
three of the smallest of countries,
each of them less extensive than
many American counties. From
Judea we received the Christian religion. The phi¬
losophy of Greece laid the foundation for all modern
speculation, and her art has never been surpassed;
while to Holland we must ascribe civil and religious
liberty.

Doubtless England has done much for us in eman¬
cipating the race from kingly tyranny, but't is to
Holland that the world owes England itself. The
distinguished English historian Freeman tells us
that the Anglo-Saxon race found its earlier home on
" the wild Frisian shore," and that the English race
is but the Dutch transplanted from Holland. This
greatest of England's historians calls Holland the first
home of the Anglo-Saxon, England the second, and
America the third.