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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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n unknownquantity in the jurisprudence of Sweden.The only case in which the jury of thevicinage is called in a vSwedish cause isa question involving the liberty of thepress the right to speak and publish. We have seen by what an informalsort of movement the vSwedes passed, atan early date, from the open professionEfforts of the of paganism to the openswedestogain profession of Christianity. recognition oi -^ -^ Rome. But the profession of the latter faith did not, by any means, satisfythe more zealous, especially the mission-aries who came into Sweden and foundthere nothing like the religious life withwhich they had been acquainted in othercountries. During the reign of SwerkerKarlsson, that is, from 1135 to 1155, thatmonarch was constant in his petitions tothe popes of Rome to give to the Swedesbishops and episcopal establishments like those in continental countries. Heasked for a Swedish primate also, whichmeasure would bring his people in closeconnection with Rome. It was in carry-
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SCANDINAVIAN GOD. ing out these negotiations that NicholasBreakspeare, of whom we have alreadyspoken as the only English prelate whoever reached the papacy, was employed.Breakspeare found, however, that the THE NORSE.—S WE DBS. 81 Swedes and the Goths were ethnicallydisagreed as to the place for the HolySee, and in a synod at Linkoping, in1152, it was decided that the Swedishclergy should accept the law of celibacy,and that Sweden should bear an annualtax in favor of the pope. Such was thebid which the Swedish nation laid on thealtar to secure the primacy at Upsala. In these Middle Ages of Swedishhistory we may quickly discover theHeredity and Struggle of the two forccsS^fuXidbr «f heredity and election,property. There seems to be among the people of the Teutonic race a diver-sity of instinct relative to the method ofchoosing their public officers. The infer-ence appears natural enough that thecapacity of a great king will be trans-mitted by birth and the laws of descentto his offs

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