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Excerpt from Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 20 The Moravian kingdom had, however, been totally dissolved by the efforts of the German armies from without, and those of an intriguing Romish priesthood within; but Germany was doomed to pay a heavy penalty for this untimely piece of ambition. In a civilized age a just calculation of the balance of power, and a correct estimate of the means of defence which the other nations of Europe had to wield, would have shown the utility of preserving a power on the east ern frontier capable of resisting the attacks of the unsettled hordes of Asia, to which the better cultivated regions of this quarter of the globe offer a continual lure. Were we to speculate on the probable results of such a course of policy pursued at that time, we might picture to ourselves the earlier advancement of those splendid countries which lie between the Carpathians and the Black Sea, to a state of high civilization. The maintenance of a different element of religious discipline in one half of Europe must have delivered either part from the danger of being priest-ridden. The invad ing Magyars, Moguls, and Turks, having so formidable a bulwark to oppose their in roads, would not have carried their devasta ting arms, which produced even more la mentable moral effects, into the very heart of civilized Europe. But let us turn from speculation upon that which might have been to the melancholy picture of reality. 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.