By exploiting Erin's resources she impoverished herself.

By trying to impose Protestantism she made Ireland the very stronghold of papacy.

By striving to destroy the septs she created the nation.
{350} CHAPTER VII SCOTLAND One of the most important effects of modern means of easy communication between all parts of the world has been to obliterate or minimize distinctions in national character and in degrees of civilization.

The manner of life of England and Australia differ less now than the manner of life of England and Scotland differed in the sixteenth century.

The great stream of culture then flowed much more strongly in the central than in the outlying parts of Western Europe.