Piotr Nater
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Whether one looks upon it with joy or with regret, it cannot be gainsaid.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Protestant nations were steadily growing in power, greatness and prosperity.
The nations over which Jesuitism and Romanism had control were showing signs of rapid and apparently irretrievable decay.
To revert to Poland, how successfully, how smoothly had the transition seemed to be made from the old dynasty to the new order, whilst neighbouring Russia, after the extinction of its hereditary house, sank into apparently hopeless confusion.
And yet the heroic firmness of the Russian people had extricated them out of this confusion and had laid the foundations of a mightier and larger development, whilst in Poland, the germ of decay that lay in its very vitals was rapidly destroying the body politics.
The clergy kept the lower classes in subjection, whilst themselves serving the interests of a rude, selfish, and dissolute nobility.
But in Germany the momentous question was into which of the two camps that of Protestantism or that of the Counter Reformation the nation would pass.
Not the German people alone, but the whole West was profoundly interested in the issue.
End of part two of the Counter Reformation in Scandinavia and Poland by Martin Philipson.
The Salt Mines of Vilichka eighteen fifty By Bayard Taylor From The World's Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Edited by Eva March Tapan Volume six Russia, Austria Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey.
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Read by Piotr Natter.
In company with a professor from St.
Petersburg, we left Krakow in the morning, crossed the Vistula, and drove eastward through a low, undulating country covered with fields of rye, oats, and potatoes.
The village of Vilichka occupies a charming situation on the northern slope of a long, wood crowned hill, and
The large storehouses for the salt, the governmental offices, and the residences of the superintendents on a slight eminence near the foot first strike the eye.
After procuring a permit from the proper official, we presented ourselves at the office, over the mouth of the mine, in company with five Prussian travellers, two of them ladies, and a wandering German mechanic who had tramped out from Krakow in hope of seeing the place.
We were all enveloped in long, coarse blouses of white linen, and having bespoken a supply of Bengal lights, a door was opened, and we conceived
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