The separate history of such half-organized morsels is tedious and petty.

Trifling dynasties, where a family or two were every thing, the people nothing, leave little worth recording.

Even the most devout of genealogists might shudder to chronicle the long succession of so many illustrious obscure.
A glance, however, at the general features of the governmental system now established in the Netherlands, at this important epoch in the world's history, will show the transformations which the country, in common with other portions of the western world, had undergone.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

An entirely new polity has succeeded.

No great popular assembly asserts its sovereignty, as in the ancient German epoch; no generals and temporary kings are chosen by the nation.