पुस्तक प्रवश जिसने रोमन लोगों में सबसे पहले पाप पुण्य के विचार पैदा किये, इंगलिस्तान भर में खूब जोर रहा। इंगलिस्तान के अनेक हिस्सों में वैदिक देवता मित्र के मन्दिर कायम हुए, जिनके टूटे हुए अवशेष अभी तक अजायब धरों में मौजूद हैं । किन्तु श्राने जाने की असुविधाओं और इंगलिस्तान की बहुत अधिक असभ्य अवस्था के कारण यह असर देर तक न ठहर सका । इसके बाद से रोमन लोगों ने इंगलिस्तान के बाशिन्दों को सभ्य बनाने की कोशिश की । चार सौ साल तक इंगलिस्तान पर रोम वालों की हुकूमत रही, किन्तु इंगलिस्तान रोमन साम्राज्य के बिलकुल एक दूर के किनारे पर पड़ता था और इन चार सौ साल के अन्दर सबसे बड़ा उपयोग जो रोम के शासकों ने इंगलिस्नान का किया, या जो वह कर सके वह ग्रही था ordered the political works ot Buchanan, Milton, and Baxter to be publicly burnt in the court of the schools . . In admastering the law, whether In teration to political or relhgious offences, there was an incredible atrocity In London, the crazy on bridge over the Thames was decorated with gran- mng and mouldering heads ot criminals, under an idea tbat these ghastly spectarles would fortify the common people in their resolves to act accor- ding to law Tle toleration of the times may be understood from a law enacted by the Scotch Parhament, May8,1685, that whoever preached or heard in a conventicle should be punished with death and the confiscation of his goodsThat such an infamous spint did not content xself with mere dead-letter laws there is too much pructical evidence to permit anyone ro doubt . .Shreeking Scotch Covenanters were submitted to torture by erushing ther knees fiat in the bout, women were tied to stakes on the sea- sands and drowned by the slowly advancting tude because they would not artend Episcopal worship, or branded on their cbeeks and then shipped to Amerca The court ladies. and even the Queen of England hersell, were so utterly forgetful ot normanly mercy and common humanity as to join In this intermal traffic "-The intellectual Development of Europe, byJohn Willian Draper, vol , pp 230-244
