Monthly Literary Miscellany Volume 4-5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...swarming wilds in multitudes which no slaughter could exhaust, and with a rude valor and endurance that filled with amazement the softer children of the South. There, when the hour came, were found already in ripe preparation, already made strong by an inscrutable Providence for its own purposes, the scourges, the conquerors, the ultimate regenerators of Southern Europe.--And when Rome had at last shown herself incompetent to the great trust of universal empire, and false to a World committed to her sway, the bleak North poured forth her avengers--Goth, Vandal, Hun, and frank--of many names, and many nameless; all children of the North-land, all of the sturdy Scythian brood, that had con quered that Frost-world'and fHled all itfrozen realms with its hardy tribes. Their counterpart in modem times is best foundin those Cossacks of the Don and the Ukraine, who-with genuine Scythian grit chased back the legions of Napoleon inhis great Russian mistake. There was ar great mission assigned tothis race. When the polished nations of Middle an d Southern Europe bad at last melted into luxurious softness, and all true nobleness and virtue were fast approaching extinction, it was reserved for this people to pour themselves down over the earth, and infuse their vigorous life and earnest character into-the decaying nations. For this they had received the stern nurture of the North. And at th- appointed time, the barriers were bnrst open, and the flood of Barbarians rolled' down over the inviting South, first to devastate and destroy, then to co-alesce, regenerate, and reconstruct. Modern Europe is the product of the old Roman civilization in its co-ale&cence with the broad strength and hardy energy of its Scythian conquerors--a cross between the soft Italian poli...