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Title: The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Betten, Francis S. (Francis Sales), 1863-1942 Kaufmann, Alfred, 1878-1941, joint author
Subjects: History, Modern
Publisher: Boston, New York, (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tablished English supremacyover a large part of India, and his successors completed the task.Again the half-hearted support given by the French govern-ment to its representatives in India and the frightful corruptionof French officials made their colonies easy victims of the resoluteEnglish. In the general peace France still maintained somenominal control over her former possessions in India, but undersuch restrictions that they ceased to have any great value forher. Thus England came out of the Seven Years War as thereal conqueror. Her colonial supremacy and her mastery of theseas was firmly established. England had become Great Britain. 499. After 1763 Fredericks kingdom of Prussia enjoyed along period of much-needed rest. — It must be admitted thatthe unscrupulous diplomat and aggressive conqueror showedhimself in several ways an excellent administrator. The workof the Great Elector was taken up again and carried forwardvigorously. Frederick took a lively interest in the develop-
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499 500 PRUSSIA IN EUROPE (§499 ment of good farming, but still more care he bestowed on theprogress of manufacturing. His policy was to foster homeindustries by high import duties. He spared no pains to induceforeign artisans to settle on his territory and raise the standardof its own manufacturers. His efforts along these lines wereamply rewarded. Wealth and comfort increased rapidly andhelped more than his victories to make him popular. Withhis officials he sternly insisted on efficiency and honest), andthat with such good results that the fairness and justice ofthe Prussian courts, for instance, became proverbial. Lesspraise can be given to his influence on literature. Though notwithout literary tastes, he was imbued with the ideals of Voltaireand an admirer of the mocking and cynical tone of the Frenchwriters of the eighteenth century (§ 521). For the rising Ger-man literature (some of its masterpieces had already appeared),he had a profound contempt. Frederick was the most per

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