be possible (with our friends of the Paris dinner-party) to speak of the UNITED STATES as stretching from pole to pole,—­or, with Tennyson, to celebrate the “parliament of man and the federation of the world.”  Indeed, only when such a state of things has begun to be realized, can Civilization, as sharply demarcated from Barbarism, be said to have fairly begun.  Only then can the world be said to have become truly Christian.  Many ages of toil and doubt and perplexity will no doubt pass by before such a desideratum is reached.  Meanwhile it is pleasant to feel that the dispassionate contemplation of great masses of historical facts goes far towards confirming our faith in this ultimate triumph of good over evil.  Our survey began with pictures of horrid slaughter and desolation:  it ends with the picture of a world covered with cheerful homesteads, blessed with a sabbath of perpetual peace.

[Footnote 1:  Freeman, “Norman Conquest,” v. 482.]

[Footnote 2:  Freeman, “Comparative Politics,” 264.]

[Footnote 3:  This is disputed, however.  See Ross, “Early History of Landholding among the Germans.”]

[Footnote 4:  Stubbs, “Constitutional History,” i. 84.]

[Footnote 5:  Kemble, “Saxons in England,” i. 59.]

[Footnote 6:  Maine, “Village Communities,” Lond., 1871, p. 132.]

[Footnote 7:  Stubbs, “Constitutional History,” i. 85.]

[Footnote 8:  Freeman, “Comparative Politics,” 118.]

[Footnote 9:  Geffroy, “Rome et les Barbares,” 209.]

[Footnote 10:  Maine, “Village Communities,” 118.]

[Footnote 11:  Stubbs, “Constitutional History,” i. 625.]

[Footnote 12:  Stubbs, “Select Charters,” 401.]

[Footnote 13:  “La Cite Antique,” 441.]

[Footnote 14:  Arnold, “Roman Provincial Administration,” 237.]

[Footnote 15:  Stubbs, “Select Charters,” 401.]

[Footnote 16:  In 1880.]

INDEX.

Abderrahman
Achaian league
Aden
Adoption
Aetolian league
Africa, English colonies in
Albany Congress
Amphiktyonic Council
Angeln
Angles
Anglo-American
Anglo-Saxon
Appomattox
Arable mark
Ariovistus
Armada, the Invincible
Armies of Europe will be disbanded
Arminius
Arnold, M.
Asiaticization
Athens, grandeur of
  incorporated demes of Attika,
  old tribal divisions modified,
  school of political training
  maritime empire of
Attila
Australia
Austria

Baker, Sir S.
Bancroft, Hubert
Barons, war of the
Basileus
Batu
Belgium
Benefices
Bern
Bonaparte, N.
Bonapartism
Boroughs, special privileges of
Boston, growth of
  its Common
Boundaries of United States
Burgundians
By-laws