Volume 1

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index.

  • Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *8 book priefts, the inhabitants no longer retained thaten- t_ « thufiafiic love of glory with which the religion of Wodin had formerly infpired them j nor were they yet acquainted with thofe wife inftitutions which fome of them have fince borrowed from better forms of government. Their power was fo inconfiderable, that a fingle Hanfe Town was capable of intimidating the three potentates of the north. They recovered their national im- portance after the reformation, and under the au- fpices of Frederic and Guftavus Vafa. The Turks were ftrangers to the fcience of go- vernment: they had no knowledge of the arts, nor tafte for commerce : but the Januaries were the belt troops in the world j and there wanted but one fingle verfe to be added to the Coran, to make thofe people, over whom religion has hitherto had fo much influence, become the maf- ters of the world. If Mohammed, after having laid, ‘Thou Jhalt return to the enemy the month of calamity for the month of calamity, had added: And thou Jhalt defpife the vain knowlege of the franger ; the art of war is the only one thou Jhalt learn from him \ the freedom of Europe would then have been at an end. Whoever lhall teach the per- fection of the military art to the Turks, will be the common enemy of all nations. The Janif- faries, thofe attendants on a defpot whom they keep in awe, or to whom they infure refpeft; whom they fix upon the throne, or ftrangle at pleafure, had at that time fome great men for their leaders. They fubverted the empire of the Greeks, who were infatuated with theology, and ftupified