Excerpt from Rome and Reform, Vol. 2 of 2
Poland naturally comes after Ireland; the two are much alike in their warlike spirit, in their love of disunion, in their devotion to Rome, and in their gloomy history since the Counter Reformation set in.
Here we have to go back to the year 1300, and to draw a line, roughly speaking, between Grodno and Zamosc, after wards lengthening it in a south-west direction on to the Hungarian border.2 To the West of this line dwelt the Poles, who had been centuries earlier converted from heathenism by Rome. To the East of this line dwelt the White and Red Russians, who, in common with their countrymen at Moscow, were the spiritual Offspring Of the Greek patriarch at Constantinople, and claimed the name of Orthodox. TO the North of Grodno dwelt the Lithuanians, a race of valiant Pagans, the most interesting of all Europeans in the eyes Of a philologer. The deeds of these three nations make up the future history of Poland.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This 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.