France today still pays. as for long years she has been paying. the penalty for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. That wanton act. as shortsighted as it was arbitrary. as senseless as it waswicked. drove beyond the borders of France a million of souls. comprising some of the best blood and best intellects of the French people. The Protestant (megrds. driven from their homes in France. stripped of their property. carried with them to England. to Germany. and to the wilds of America. not only their religion but that training and discipline of mind which the school of adversity always teaches. and today you can read on the brightest pages of the histories of the countries receiving the refugees the great achievements wrought by them. England owes to them and their posterity much. very much. of her preeminencein the worlds commerce. Germany is their debtor both in the arts of peace and of war.
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