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revolutionists in the history of the world, and account for the facts that the centre of gravity of civilisation has been at one time placed in India, at other times in China, Egypt, Greece, and so forth, and that Hindus, Musalmans, and Christians have been in diverse times the "chosen races" of God. The fact that modern Europe has witnessed successively the hegemony of Spain, France, and England, and is at present the theatre of international diplomacy and armed neutrality between Germany, Russia, and England, is to be explained by the diversities in world-politics that have been created by the series of facts of far-reaching consequence, such as the royal marriages of the Habsburgs, bigotry and intolerance of Philip II., protection and toleration of Elizabeth,